System and method for performing error recovery in an integrated development environment

1. A system for code completion compiler error recovery while creating software code in an integrated development environment, comprising:

a processor;

means for parsing the syntactic structure of a first program in a first programming language, implemented on the processor, wherein the first program can be represented by a first set of tokens;

means for detecting a syntax error in the first program, implemented on the processor;

means for correcting the syntax error by adding at least one token to the first set of tokens, implemented on the processor, according to one of: 1) a prefix, wherein a prefix is the combination of an opening delimiter with a newly created closing delimiter; and 2) an idiom, wherein an idiom is a specific insertion sequence that can be used to overcome common errors in a given programming language; and

wherein an extensible compiler framework detects the syntax error.

2. An integrated development environment code completion compiler error recovery system, comprising:

a processor;

a language module, implemented on the processor, including a parser operable to parse the syntactic structure of a first program in a first programming language, wherein the first program can be represented by a first set of tokens;

a client interface through which the language module can communicate with an extensible compiler framework, implemented on the processor;

the extensible compiler framework including a namespace component wherein the namespace component is operable to store name and/or type information for one or more language modules; and

wherein the parser can correct a syntax error by adding at least one token to the first set of tokens according to one of: 1) a prefix, wherein a prefix is the combination of an opening delimiter with a newly created closing delimiter; and 2) an idiom, wherein an idiom is a specific insertion sequence that can be used to overcome common errors in a given programming language; and

wherein an extensible compiler framework detects the syntax error.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the syntax error can be corrected by removing at least one token from the first set of tokens according to a grammar rule if the syntax error cannot be remedied by adding at least one token to the set of tokens.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein:

the grammar rule incorporates the syntax error into a grammatical of the first programming language.

5. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the prefix includes an opening delimiter and a closing delimiter.

6. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the prefix associates an unmatched delimiter with the at least one token.

7. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the at least one token is an operator if there is no applicable prefix.

8. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the idiom associates a syntax error with the at least one token.

9. The system of claim 2 wherein the step of remedying the syntax error includes:

adding a terminator to the first set of tokens.

10. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the extensible compiler framework can integrate and interact with compilers for different programming languages through a common interface.

11. The system of claim 2 wherein:

the first program in the first programming language can be nested within a second program in a second programming language.

12. The system of claim 2 wherein:

a second program in a second programming language is nested within the first program in the first programming language.