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@@ -322,8 +322,8 @@ This allows for better IDE integration.
 Displaying the offending source code along with the error message is helpful, but not required.
 
 Parsing may stop on the first error.
-Pay attention to operator precedence.
 Error recovery is optional.
+Pay attention to operator precedence.
 
 Note that partial mC programs, like an expression or statement, are not valid inputs to the main *parse* function.
 The library *may* provide additional functions for parsing single expressions or statements.
@@ -360,6 +360,8 @@ As the parser only does syntactic checking, additional semantic checks are imple
     - Includes checking operations on arrays (including array size)
     - Includes checking arguments and return types for call expressions
 
+Semantic checking may stop on the first error encountered.
+
 In addition to the AST, *symbol tables* are created and used for semantic checking.
 Be sure to correctly model [*shadowing*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_shadowing).