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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 02:11:05PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:08:30AM +1100, Gareth Pearce wrote:
>
> > 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).
Oooh, and with message numbers it's possible to add options to enable
or disable individual warnings.
Janis