Feature Request: Location of template instantiation failure

[Oskar Linde]

Janice Caron wrote:

> 
> So ... feature request: If the DMD compiler is unable to instantiate a
> template, then, as part of the error reporting, please could it print
> out the filename and line number of the line which triggered the
> instantiation? It would be so much more helpful to see:
> 
>     test.d(5): static assert  is false
>     test.d(12): instantiation failure

DMD used to do this, which often resulted in error messages of 1000 of 
lines. It would still be very useful to get the old behavior back via a 
compiler switch though.

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Oskar