Let us talk about error messages

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Aug 11 06:16:22 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 19:20:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/10/2016 11:28 AM, qznc wrote:
>> Rust changed their error message format:
>>
>> https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-come.html
>>
>> Inspiration for D?
>
> There are some good ideas there. One thing I've idly thought 
> about is to include a clickable link to the relevant section in 
> the spec.

It would be good enough if the compiler provided the reason for 
an error in any form, currently it sounds like "can't work", see 
e.g. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9626


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