dmd: why not use fully qualified names for types in error messages?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:50:29PM -0700, Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> eg:
> Error: no property 'IF_gray' for type 'ImageFormat'
> =>
> Error: no property 'IF_gray' for type 'foo.bar.ImageFormat'

I support such a change.  Is there an issue filed in bugzilla for this?

I'd add that this would be very useful with Voldemort types, esp. Phobos
ones that are generally just named "Result".


> and also, why not show where the symbol is defined?

Might not be a bad idea, if you're dealing with overloads and don't want
to manually scroll through every definition to see which is the relevant
one.  I'm not 100% sure, but I think this info should already be
available in the symbol definition.


> would PR's for that be accepted? is that hard to implement?

Only Walter / Andrei can answer the first question.

For the second question, it doesn't seem hard but it's hard to tell for
sure until I look at the actual code.


T

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