Quick Question

I got a quiz in class and there is a question that i got wrong and i am curious about what the answer for the question is. The question is:

Consider the following program.

Code:

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public class HelloWorld
{
    public static void main (String agrs[])
    {
        System.out.println ("Hello World")
    }
}

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The missing semicolon in the fifth line of this code is a syntax error. It will be caught by the ________.
a. compiler c. assembler
b. editor d. interpreter

The first question i asked the teacher was if this was at runtime he said no. The question was referring to when you are typing your code in eclipse or netbeans and miss a semicolon and then the line gets alighted to indicate that there is a error and what is responsible for that. I put the editor and i think my answer was correct because it would be at runtime that this check would be done otherwise. Can anyone tell me what is the answer and why.

Well if you were talking about when your typing code in Eclipse or Net Beans, then the answer should be b.editor because those Java IDE's usually check your code for those kind of thinks while you type. But if you weren't using an IDE then the compiler would pick it up.
Bit of a pointless question if you ask me.

yeah i know but that question stop me from storing a perfect mark

Maybe you should tell your teacher how bad his questions are, because that kind of thing is not required knowledge, it more common sense than anything else.

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Originally Posted by jammas615

Maybe you should tell your teacher how bad his questions are, because that kind of thing is not required knowledge, it more common sense than anything else.

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tell me about it!