Comment by chongli
11 hours ago
A compiler is allowed to halt on a syntax error. Syntax highlighters ideally should not give up on colouring the rest of the document due to mismatched parentheses (or braces or any other delimiter pair).
11 hours ago
A compiler is allowed to halt on a syntax error. Syntax highlighters ideally should not give up on colouring the rest of the document due to mismatched parentheses (or braces or any other delimiter pair).
Many syntax highlighters in fact do so, but this simply isn't what the point was about network indeterminacy--compilation determines the semantics of the program being compiled, syntax highlighters do not.
Fair point