Re: internship opportunities

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>]

Joe Buck wrote:

> How about seeing what we can do to get clearer error messages
> when people make mistakes using all of our fancy class facilities?
> This might affect both the compiler and the library.
>
> A first cut, which would need little expertise, is to collect the
> types of confusing messages people typically encounter, and think
> about ways for the compiler to guess what the intent was.
>
> Without some effort like this, using TR1 is not going to be much fun.
To be honest, I don't think this is a major issue, *per se*. The reason 
is that TR1 is non-normative and, when the facilities it describes will 
be known as part of the next standard (so called C++0x), that will most 
likely happen together with 'Concepts' and all its nice features from 
the point of view of the emitted error messages. Moreover, in that 
context, some facilities will be likely reimplemented and the new, much 
simpler and cleaner code will "automatically" give rise to 
straightforward error messages (e.g., result_of?).

Paolo.