Two cases for improving error messages
H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 25 07:30:37 PDT 2014
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 05:14:31PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> Hello. Please see the following and say whether they're OK to submit
> as bugs for improving the error messages. Thanks.
>
> ref int foo(ref int x) { return x ; }
>
> void main () {
> foo(3) ;
> // Error: function rvalue_argument.foo (ref int x) is not callable
> using argument types (int)
> // Comment: "argument ref int x of function rvalue_argument.foo cannot
> bind to an rvalue" would be clearer IMO
>
> int i ;
> ref ir = i ;
> // Error: variable ref_type.main.ir only parameters or foreach
> declarations can be ref
> // Comment: add ", return values" after "parameters"
> }
[...]
I agree with submitting both of these as enhancement requests. Please
tag them with "diagnostic" in the keywords field.
T
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