What to use for finding as many syntax errors as possible.

[Karsten Hilbert]

Am Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 07:51:12PM +0200 schrieb Antoon Pardon:

> >But the point is: you can't (there is no way to) be sure the
> >9+ errors really are errors.
> >
> >Unless you further constrict what sorts of errors you are
> >looking for and what margin of error or leeway for false
> >positives you want to allow.
>
> Look when I was at the university we had to program in Pascal and
> the compilor we used continued parsing until the end. Sure there
> were times that after a number of reported errors the number of
> false positives became so high it was useless trying to find the
> remaining true ones, but it still was more efficient to correct the
> obvious ones, than to only correct the first one.
>
> I don't need to be sure. Even the occasional wrong correction
> is probably still more efficient than quiting after the first
> syntax error.

A-ha, so you further defined your context.

Under which I can agree to the objective :-)

Best,
Karsten
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