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Re: libg++-2.8.1.3 and gcc-20000220 CVS

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> But, as we've been discussing, the right solution is to format
> error-messages better.  We need to lose the prefix on every line, or
> at least the full path, in order to make error messages more readable.

FWIW, this is how I squirt out diagnostics from my VRML parser.
.../proto.3.wrl:->file:/home/staff/nathan/curlSpace/devel/nmsVrml/test/proto.3.wrl
.../proto.3.wrl:21:Error-whilst reading `Foo.node', node `Material' (<builtin>) is not allowed here (only `Appearance'
.../proto.3.wrl:21:  nodes can occur)
.../proto.3.wrl:22:Error-whilst reading `Shape.geometry', node `PROTO Foo' (:5) (a `Shape') is not allowed here (only
.../proto.3.wrl:22:  `.geometry.' nodes can occur)

nathan
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