Informix compiler parsing is poor

Has anyone else noticed that the informix c4gl compiler accepts some sytax as valid, like print column "fred", "barney" which emits no compiler warning, but goes into an infinite loop at run time. The parser should catch this bug. I have found other weird limitations, like you can't use a string constant in a cursor OPEN statement, and sometimes built-in function calls can't be used in certain cases. It seems like the 4gl parsing is just not as robust as other languages I have used. Has anyone else noticed this? -- Bruce Momjian | 830 Blythe Avenue root%candle.uucp@bts.com | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 + If your life is a hard drive, | (215) 353-9879(w) + Christ can be your backup. | (215) 853-3000(h)