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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 parenthe

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).

jesse__ 1y ago
Fair point
jibal 1y ago
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.