This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing. So you would only get errors

This is true. The most abhorrent fact is that [the version I used some six years ago] it would parse line by line while executing. So you would only get errors if the line actually got executed. The whole idea of line-based syntaxes is dubious in my view, but this makes it even worse.