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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 08:51:25AM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
>
> [ 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.
Strike "numbers" in my email and read "something else equally unchanging,"
then. I'm not stuck on numbers per se, just some kind of constant short
label.
Phil
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not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
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