I was compiling an applet that began

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/* multi-line comments bla bla bla */

import awt.*
import net.www.html.URL;
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(notice the missing ';' after the 'awt.*') and got the right error
message from the compiler, except that the compiler first threw an
exception. Here it is:

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java.tools.java.SyntaxError
        at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java)
        at java.tools.java.SyntaxError.<init>(SyntaxError.java)
        at java.tools.java.Parser.expect(Parser.java)
        at java.tools.java.Parser.parseFile(Parser.java)
        at java.tools.javac.BatchEnvironment.parseFile(BatchEnvironment.java)
        at java.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java)
        at java.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java)
Bookmark.java:20: ';' expected.
import awt.*
            ^
1 error

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