From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T05:14:17+09:00
Subject: Re: quality of error messages

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:48, Charles Hixson wrote:

> The question is, how much work would any of these ideas be to 
> implement, and what, if any, existing code would they break.  
> (Offhand it looks simple and safe, but I'm no expert in THAT 
> area.)  Also, it it esthetically nice, though perhaps the 
> importance of that is minimal, as one consideration is that 
> all existing code should continue to work.

     parse.y comes with the source distribution.

     It can be edited with any text editor.

     I don't even know C and I was able to put together a patch that
makes lady's blush and strong men weep (see adjacent threads) in about
three light evenings work.

-- Markus