An idea stolen from C#: How about adding a small 'error-message ID' like DPL00042 to every compiler message? This makes it easier to search for information about the error. If tools want to handle certain compiler errors then they can grep for the message-ID instead of the complete message.
I thought of adding a wiki page, wiki.dlang.org/Compiler_Messages to keep a list of all messages. It's then possible to add examples, detailed information how to resolve an error and links to further information (e.g. changelog entry for error/warning/deprecated message) to that page. I could file a pull request which does this for all existing error messages, but it requires contributors to follow a small protocol for future error messages as we need to make sure we do not assign one ID to different messages: If you want to introduce a new error message: Before even opening a pull request, * go to wiki.dlang.org/Compiler_Messages * pick next free ID * add it to the page with status pending * Once stuff is merged update the description/status on the wiki page As an example how this could work, search for CS1002. So do we want this?
