On 9/24/13 1:29 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/23/2013 11:38 AM, bearophile wrote:
2) The other improvement I'd like for D error messages and warnings is to give a
standard error number. This is a simple improvement, but it makes simpler to
write explanation pages for the errors. The C# compiler and other compilers have
them.
I used to do that, but again, it was a completely unwanted feature, and I
abandoned it.
It's simple enough to grep for the error message text, and I myself prefer to
do the grep method.
What makes me grumpy is people only want these things when some other compiler
does it, sort of a
bandwagon thing.
I think it's less a bandwagon thing and more a the bar has been raised thing. 30 years ago ide's
were essentially unheard of. Tooling around compilers and languages was almost non-existent. The
picture and expectations about user friendliness today are drastically different. The past is not a
perfect predictor of the present.
