[Mono-bugs] [Bug 29494][Min] Changed - mcs doesn't report 'missing semicolon'

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Changed by osewa77@yahoo.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=29494

--- shadow/29494	Tue Aug 27 11:16:10 2002
+++ shadow/29494.tmp.31561	Mon Sep 16 08:01:04 2002
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Bug#: 29494
 Product: Mono/MCS
 Version: unspecified
-OS: Red Hat 7.2
+OS: Red Hat 7.3
 OS Details: 
-Status: NEW   
+Status: REOPENED   
 Resolution: 
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Minor
 Component: Misc
 AssignedTo: miguel@ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: ndrochak@gol.com               
@@ -58,6 +58,23 @@
 How often does this happen? 
 always
 
 Additional Information:
 This doesn't happen with a missing semicolon everwhere, but I'm not sure
 what about this example makes it happen.  The for loop?
+
+------- Additional Comments From osewa77@yahoo.com  2002-09-16 08:01 -------
+Don't know why I have had to struggle with bugzilla for like 20
+minutes :-( Perhaps there is something simple that could be done to
+improve the interface? I guess not.)
+
+In my two lost attempts to post, I mentioned:
+- portable.net compiler does the same, so its tempting to say its not
+a bug.  Probably its standard behaviour among parsers/compilers using
+trees?
+- However, I believe it won't be difficult/impossible to add some code
+that would check for cases where the first section of a long statement
+actually is a legal C# statement aand warn of the possibility of an
+missing semicolon if the entire stetement doesn't compile.  This code
+segment could be independent of the others.
+
+Well? Considering the fact that i'm not familiar with the compiler ...