From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-10-08T15:29:00+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

Markus [mailto:markus@reality.com] wrote:

> > > 
> > > So, which '(' is missing its ')'?
> > > 
> > 
> > again, we do _not choose or point where _exactly.
> > 
> > we only say "missing foo-end on possible foo-begin at 
> line#". Compiler 
> > suggest.  The programmer will decide.
> 
>      But if the compiler doesn't have some system (and this 
> is exactly the point I believe matz was asking about) to 
> narrow down the possibilities somewhat, 

we are narrowing it down but definitely we cannot solve it today :-)
we can start slowly.

>it isn't helping the programmer--and may be doing harm, through
misdirection.

I think even a message like a "missing pair" is a lot _better than "syntax
error".

> 
>     -- Markus

kind regards -botp