Compiler ignores missing parenthesis of Exit command

Question

Why does the Delphi compiler ignore this missing parenthesis?

function Test: Boolean;
begin
  Exit(True;    // <-- eek! it compiles...
end;

I found some of my code looking like this and first thought that Delphi ignores my unit - but it just ignores this type of syntax error. So now of course I want to know why.

Answer 1

I'm guessing Exit is considered a token unto itself, and as such anything defined within the same scope after Exit is simply ignored by the compiler (since it cannot execute those instructions anyway).