"Jarrett Billingsley" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > I've often wondered about how useful parser recovery really is. Most of the time, parsing errors after the first are complete bull anyway, so the compiler's just filling up my console with garbage. <
Frequently, yes, but I find that getting numerous *real* errors from one compile is also a frequent occurrance - and a real time saver. I get really annoyed when I get into a 5-10 iteration cycle of "fix the one reported error, recompile, get one more error, fix that, etc..." > If you combine that with the fact that recompiles are extremely cheap with D and modern machines, < That actual recompile is often (though not always) short, but the total programmer time is much higher. I find that the whole process goes *much* faster overall when I do get a bunch of real errors at once than when I just get one at a time.
