Many thanks for the feedback. I'm sure this isn't easy and I'm looking 
forward to any progress made there.

On Sunday, May 4, 2014 5:28:50 PM UTC-7, Tim Holy wrote:
>
> In addition to what Tony said, most errors that are not parser errors 
> _should_ 
> give you useful line numbers. One some platforms the backtraces have been 
> problematic, but one of the long-term offenders is at the threshold of 
> being 
> fixed (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3469) and Isaiah has 
> done some 
> good work with the other major one (can't find the issue right now). 
>
> Best, 
> --Tim 
>
> On Sunday, May 04, 2014 11:41:57 AM Dominique Orban wrote: 
> > I'm finding error messages and warnings emitted by Julia quite opaque, 
> > making development difficult. For instance, I tried translating a 
> function 
> > from Matlab code by copy-pasting and changing a few things here and 
> there, 
> > but Julia tells me things such as "ERROR: arrays could not be broadcast 
> to 
> > a common size" or "ERROR: syntax: unexpected ,", usually without any 
> line 
> > number as a clue. When it does give a line number, it corresponds to the 
> > function declaration and that doesn't help. Are there any plans to 
> improve 
> > the error reporting? 
>

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