In addition to the assignment specifications listed on the homepage, you are expected to implement some syntax error recovery technique. Depending on your skill level and confidence, you have two choices.

Option 1: Panic Mode

These are safe symbols ];})
Upon encountering a syntax error, your program should find the next safe symbol and continue processing as if no error occurred. Print the line in which the error occurs in red. Also you should print the message "Syntax Error -- Line %d" to stderr whenever you encounter a syntax erro. This recovery technique is required at the very least.

Example:
1 if (x < y) {
2 out.println(x * x * y 2 );
3 }

Your program should print to stderr
Sytax Error -- Line 2

Line 2 should be printed in red


Option 2: Phase Level Recovery

Augment the safe symbol set above to consider contexts in which the parse error is found. By knowing where the error occured, it is possible to recover from errors quicker and more efficiently. This is extra credit. If you implement this technique, include a seperate file in your turnin called "PHASE_OPTION.TXT." In that file, describe what you implemented and give a list of test cases in which your implementation improves performance. Extra credit points will be assigned based on depth and usefuleness to parser as determined by the TA. Generally speaking, adding different safe symbols to many different contexts is desired.

Using the previous example, one may note that expression sometimes contain typos, and safe points in expressions may be operators.

Refer to Programming Language Pragmatics(57-60) for further information.