Subj : Re: Compiler and an interpreter
To   : comp.programming
From : gswork
Date : Fri Jul 29 2005 09:11 am


anjali wrote:
> Suppose in a source-code file, the 4th line contains the first syntax
> error.Can anybody please tell me how the compiler and interpreter will
> behave when the given file will be the input to them?
>
> My guess is that the compiler will go through the entire file and will
> report all the syntax errors in the file while the interpreter will
> stop its execution exactly after the 4th line and will say that there
> is a syntax error in the 4th line.

Frequently yes, but in fact either can be made to do either, depending
on how they have been designed!

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