Improving Compiler Error Messages

[Andrej Mitrovic]

Walter Bright Wrote:

> http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/05/improving_compi.html
> 
> The next dmd update is getting the fruits of this.

Is anyone else having trouble with accessing drdobbs lately? I had to accept some kind of "unrecognized certificate" in Firefox, and still couldn't access the website. I get a "connection reset".

Btw, about the semicolon talk:

I think it's possible to get around typing the semicolon, but it would require some editor customizations. For example, you could define a behavior where a semicolon gets automatically added at the end of a statement if there is an extra space at the end of the line. 
Or you could do it vice-versa, where the semicolon gets added automatically at EOL unless you add a space character before you hit enter. Well, you can potentially have all kinds of smart editing features really.