On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

> >The C18 compiler's cryptic "syntax error on line xxxx"
> >didn't exactly help either.
> 
> C30 is like this as well. It knows there is a syntax error in that it has 
> reached something without finding a closing bracket, why does it need to use 
> a catch-all error message??? 
> 

Because at that level of parsing it may just be looking for any one of a 
set of tokens. The "catch-all error message" just means it found something 
it wasn't expecting (not in the list, maybe a keyword, brace or 
semicolon). At that level the function doesn't know what it's parsing so 
it can't tell you what the real problem is.

Friendly Regards
Sergio Masci
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