For some value of “correct”. Actually, it's often more like skipping a few token...

vincent-manis on April 10, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Compilers Don’t Autocorrect “Obvious” Parse Er...

For some value of “correct”. Actually, it's often more like skipping a few tokens until some kind of synchronization point (e.g., a semicolon) is reached. It's good manners for a compiler that does this to refuse to produce a binary.