Numbering compiler error messages?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Mar 28 11:28:26 PDT 2014


On 3/28/2014 10:28 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> I'm a big fan of CXXXX and LNKXXXX from Visual C++ personally but have never
> brought it up because I know Walter doesn't care for them. The quality of error
> messages in D is a weakness in my opinion though so anything to help with that
> is good in my book.

The quality of error messages is always a problem, but numbers won't fix that. 
(Been there, done that, too. Numbering doesn't clarify things.) What we have 
been doing is, when lousy messages are identified, a PR is often produced to 
improve it. That's how these things get better, one message at a time.



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