Quality of errors in DMD

[Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 3 September 2016 at 22:53:25 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 9/3/2016 3:05 PM, Ethan Watson wrote:
>> In the cases I've been bringing up here, it's all been user 
>> code that's been the
>> problem *anyway*. Regardless of if the compiler author was 
>> expecting code to get
>> to that point or not, erroring out with zero information is a 
>> bad user experience.
>
> Nobody is suggesting that asserts are a good user experience. 
> I've asserted (!) over and over that this is why asserts have a 
> high priority to get fixed.
>
> Adding more text to the assert message is not helpful to end 
> users.

Perhaps the best error message would be "Please post this as a 
bug to bugzilla."