LO 80731 - Incorrect syntax does compile, MID without end bracket

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 06/28/2017 12:12 PM, Pierre Lepage wrote:
> The solution brings a lot of hassle for customers of the LibreOffice 
> suite whose work relies on the performance of StarBasic macros written 
> by third parties. Macros containing code in error by the absence of a 
> closing parenthesis suddenly cease to function. For this reason, the 
> patch has not been released. Here I want to explore a transitional 
> solution by getting your feedback first. This is to include in StarBasic 
> options dialog accessible to the client a "StarBasic Pragma Strict" 
> option (checkbox) by which the client consciously activates the solution 
> (the patch that has not been published!). This check box would be 
> available for a few years with a warning to prompt programmers and 
> customers to require their programmer to correct their default code on 
> the closing parenthesis.

Another option might be to have some form of such a pragma in individual 
BASIC source files, instead of as an IDE option.  (And have the pragma 
enabled in the "REM ***** BASIC ****** Sub Main ... End Sub" boilerplate 
that is automatically present in a fresh source file.)  That way, users 
could enable it for their own, new code, while (implicitly) keeping it 
off for non-conforming old, 3rd-party code.