Re: CINT doesn't see syntactic error

From: Damir Buskulic (buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr)
Date: Fri Mar 05 1999 - 10:43:38 MET 

Ok, Rene's answer states : this IS a mistake : you did it ! 2dt is a
legal var. name in C++ and CINT just allocates a default variable...

Thanks Rene :-)

Damir

Damir Buskulic wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm, among other things, using ROOT for our students to learn some basic
> numerical analysis methods.
> Of course, these students often do stupid errors (that never happens to
> us, of course...) and this is a good benchmarking for CINT/ROOT
> stability.
> 
> My question is : why doesn't CINT catch this obvious error :
> 
> {
>    float t=1.;
>    float dt=0.3;
>    t=t-2dt; // missing *
> }
> 
> Damir
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