Compiler updating user code

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-03-14 13:09, Michel Fortin wrote:

> But before you can consider building such a tool, you'll have to
> convince Walter that the locations of tokens should be tracked more
> precisely in the frontend. Currently the frontend remembers only the
> file and line of any token it finds. You can't implement a refactoring
> with that. Last time that came in in a discussion (about error messages
> showing the exact location of the error), the idea was shut down on the
> ground that storing better location info would slow down the compiler.

This as already been implemented [1]. DMD (git master) now supports the 
-vcolumns flag to display error message with information about the column.

[1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3077

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/Jacob Carlborg