Quality of errors in DMD

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-09-03 14:12, Walter Bright wrote:

> Except that asserts are checking for compiler bugs, not diagnostics on
> user code. I don't expect users to debug the compiler - if they get an
> assert they should file a bug report to bugzilla and let us debug the
> compiler and fix it.

What kind of issue due you see with trying to print some form of 
information when an assertion fails? I would have certainty help me the 
times I've hacked on the compiler and triggered an assertion. Why 
shouldn't the developers working on the compiler getting as much help as 
possible?

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/Jacob Carlborg