The Deadly Sins

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sez revdan at danshafer.com:
>The fourteenth deadly sin is informing the user of a compiler error  
>your compiler was smart enough to fix without his help
>
>I always _hated_ "missing semicolon on line 13." If you know there's  
>a semicolon missing, why the heck don't you just PUT IT THERE! You're 
>the freaking computer!
   Because the compiler *doesn't* know whether you (a) neglected to put the 
semicolon at the end of that line, or (b) accidentally hit return and kept on 
typing. The appropriate response for each case is different. Which begs the 
question: How is the compiler supposed to determine which response it should 
apply?