C# 0 The Complete Reference

Handling Syntax Errors

If you are new to programming, it is important to learn how to interpret and respond to errors 

that may occur when you try to compile a program. Most compilation errors are caused by 

typing mistakes. As all programmers soon find out, accidentally typing something incorrectly 

is quite easy. Fortunately, if you type something wrong, the compiler will report a 

syntax error

message when it tries to compile your program. This message gives you the line number at 

which the error is found and a description of the error itself.

Although the syntax errors reported by the compiler are, obviously, helpful, they 

sometimes can also be misleading. The C# compiler attempts to make sense out of your 

source code no matter what you have written. For this reason, the error that is reported 

may not always reflect the actual cause of the problem. In the preceding program, for 

example, an accidental omission of the opening curly brace after the