The Role Advisor - Syntax Considerations

The Role Advisor - Restrictions

The Role Advisor currently analyzes only Pascal programs that

are complete and compile,
do not include pointers, and
do not include procedures or functions.

In addition RA is quite picky about Pascal syntax, it does not process programs with a semicolon before the reserved word "end". For example

(* 1 *)  while count > 0 do begin
(* 2 *)      write('Enter value: '); readln(value);
(* 3 *)      writeln('Two times ', value, ' is ', 2*value);
(* 4 *)      count := count - 1
(* 5 *)  end;

is ok as the line 4 does not end in a semicolon, but

(* 1 *)  while count > 0 do begin
(* 2 *)      write('Enter value: '); readln(value);
(* 3 *)      writeln('Two times ', value, ' is ', 2*value);
(* 4 *)      count := count - 1;
(* 5 *)  end;

is not as the line 4 ends in a semicolon.

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