DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Walter Bright wrote:

> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777
>
> It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement.
>
> The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the error 
> message texts so they use backticks.

sorry for being rude, but this is exactly the example of things programmers 
like to write: fun, quite easy, and absolutely useless. most of the time it 
will be filtered away by ide/editor, and otherwise it is *harder* to read, 
'cause it will almost certainly not match editor's syntax coloring settings, 
so reader will have to mentally strip the colors first.

while much harder task -- showing which exactly template failed in template 
constraint -- is very hard to implement (i tried it, i know it), but will 
immediately benefit *anyone*, and will be really useful.

i'm not trying to say that you should drop the things you like to work on, 
and switch to the things i like, of course. but this patch, IMO, doesn't 
deserve a dedicated NG post.

sorry again, i'm frustrated by dmd inability to generate valid .o file from 
completely valid source, so can be harsh today.