dmd support for IDEs

[Walter Bright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el 11 de octubre a las 02:38 me escribiste:
>> Lutger wrote:
>>> What about file/line/column of the symbol? Is this much work /
>>> hard work to add?
>> file/line of course, but I don't see a point to column.
> 
> See Clang error messages:
> http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html
> 
> That's *nice* =)
> 

I agree, it looks good on paper.

In fact, I implemented it in the C and C++ compiler from the beginning 
(1982 or so). It's still in dmc, try it - it'll print out the error 
message, followed by the source text of the offending line, followed by 
a ^ under where things went wrong.

Nobody cared.

Nobody has ever commented on it - and there have been hundreds of 
thousands of users of it. No magazine review ever mentioned it. When I 
mention it to people as "cool, look at this" they never respond. When 
the conversation is about the quality of error messages, that feature 
never comes up.

So I dropped it for dmd.

Nobody noticed.

Nobody asked why it was done for dmc, and not for dmd. Nobody asked for 
it. Nothing. (Until now.)

So I am hard pressed to believe this is a worthwhile feature. There is a 
cost to it in memory consumption and compiler execution time, so it's 
not quite free.