Error message improvement ideas

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 19 December 2015 at 10:34:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> Although, the (XML) output should contain the semantic meaning 
> not how it should be displayed. That is, it should contain 
> something like <no-match>int</no-match> rather than 
> <red>int</red>.

Right.


So I took a stab at playing with this in dmd... and it actually 
isn't too hard, but it does need some refactoring of string code. 
I really do think it would be a big improvement.