Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: re: unknown what? Message-ID: <7409@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 13:10:15 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7409 Posted: Wed Jan 16 13:10:15 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 21-Jan-85 03:44:50 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 /* how long have you been programming? in case you haven't noticed most compilers spit out cryptic errors when a required delimeter is missing. perhaps languages can be designed that produce more lucid error messages, such as 'unknown keyword "foo", probable missing delimeter ";" or "}"', but C is very sparse. in your case at least the reported line number should be close. */