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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:08:30AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> (I think i heard something about carat errors being on
> the way,
They are.
>just wanting to err suggest that they make it into 3.4)
That will only happen if lots of people help make it happen. Are you
volunteering? :-) It's not like the code is finished and waiting on a
managerial decision.
> or something at least. A tool which could look up
> the documentation just by passing it the text of an error message ... would
> be nice too.
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).
Phil
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