<div dir="ltr">Hi Andrew. The issue is that the user issues the command ("PIP") to the program which cannot interpret it, so it crashes.<div>It's the same as giving any compiler a command it cannot understand - a syntax error.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The error was not in the code of the program - so it ran properly - until it was given a command by the user which it could not decipher, hence the syntax error in the input.</div><div><br></div><div>
Cheers </div><div>Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 September 2013 14:36, Andrew Pate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arp@mentonegrammar.net" target="_blank">arp@mentonegrammar.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have purchased the IARTV trial exams and am wondering about one of their multi-choice answers.Your help is, as always, appreciated.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The question asks about a function written which is called “POP”, but “when testing his stack Alan accidentally types in PIP and the program crashes”.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The multi-choice answers has us choose from runtime error or syntax error.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">They suggest the answer is syntax error (and explain that a name, expression etc…that the compiler cannot understand causes a syntax error)</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now, if the program IS RUNNING and THEN crashes, does that not imply that it compiled? Therefore, it is a runtime error (where validation of input was not handled) or am I thinking too language specifically?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p>
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