JB> it seems to me to usually at least warn somewhere near the actual
JB> it mistake. may take a while longer for the damage to accumulate
JB> enough to cause an error.

It seems that the error message is always the same:

Parse error before x.

It helped to have learned about compilers in general before using gcc.  
At least I knew what the parser did (and the potential errors coming 
from it).

þ CMPQwk 1.42 999

--- Maximus/2 3.01