Error messages for newbies survey

[Don Clugston]

On 10/10/12 14:09, bearophile wrote:
>   From Reddit, a nice survey:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/coding/comments/118ssp/honours_student_at_my_university_is_doing_a/
>
>
>
>> For my Computer Science Honours research project, I am currently
>> investigating ways of improving the terse, technical error messages
>> given by traditional compilers to make them more useful to novice
>> programmers. As part of this research, I have designed this survey to
>> help determine which types of common novice errors are inadequately
>> reported by a traditional compiler and to gather ideas on how they
>> should be reported to a novice.<
>
> http://www.esurveyspro.com/Survey.aspx?id=23752434-e25f-4a48-86bf-bb2634e1b5ce
>
>
> So this survey is not to improve error messages in general, it's
> specific for newbies. So the error situations shown in the survey
> are not typical for C programmers.
>
> Below some of the examples converted to D, with their relative
> error messages.

Many of the things you report are examples of bug 8684. Please file bug 
reports for any others you think are important.