Error recovery (long)

[Frank Adams]

In article <312 at uw-nsr.UUCP> john at uw-nsr.UUCP writes:
>I don't know the parsing method used in
>this compiler; it does not seem to suffer from poor error recovery as do 
>many recursive-descent parsers.

My impression is that the quality of the error recovery has little to do
with the parsing method used, and a great deal to do with how much effort is
investing in making the error recovery good.

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