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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
[ Sorry for having been absent these days ]
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
| You really don't want to rely on the text of an error message not changing
| over time. For this kind of thing to work, we need error messages to have
| numbers (like every other compiler does, and with reason).
Well, I must confess that I don't believe in numbers. Computers are
very good at that, humans are not I'm afarid. Certainly we could do
improvments by categoryzing diagnostics, but I'm -not- convinced that
numbers are the way to go.
-- Gaby