Unlike the DOS versions of PowerBASIC, Windows versions of PowerBASIC employ a completely different philosophy: to generate the smallest and fastest possible code. Consequently, error handling is placed firmly in the hands of the programmer. This sectrion describes the types of errors that may be encountered, and follows on with a discussion on error detection and error handling techniques.
There are two fundamental types of errors in PowerBASIC: Run-time and Compile-time. Compile-time errors are errors in syntax discovered by the compiler. Run-time errors are anomalies caught at run-time by error-detection mechanisms that the compiler places in your programs.
Examples of Run-time errors include file-system
errors (disk full or write-protected), improper function calls (
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