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For some reason I tried to run Steve Vink's tutorial code (that he provided when explaining asset management) - it was one of your early newsletter tutorials. The line that appeared in error was the 'endtype' line in the following fragment of code.

` Firstly, describe the attributes of an alien in a TYPE.
` These are the attributes that will determine what you can build later...
type tAlien
name$ as string
legs as integer
arms as integer
mass# as float
strength# as float
health# as float
endtype

For no reason other than instinct I removed the three periods from the end of the second comment line and the error message disappeared.

Any explanation?

By default (however, I think it was changed not too long ago) "..." is used to concatenate lines.
So in effect, the type declaration would be considered part of the above comment line, hence making the compiler choke on the "endtype" keyword.