>> How about, "Expression produced 2 values, but the context exected 1." > > That doesn't include a printout of the 2 values in question, nor a > particularly natural place to include them -- at the end of the > sentence would be misleading (they're not the 1 value the context > expected), and in the middle would break up the explanation if the > values took multiple lines to print.
Right, I left that out for the case when the expression source isn't available. If it is available, then it can be something like, "Expression (values 'a 'b) produced 2 values, but the context expected 1" But since the original complaint was the apparent disagreement between a visible highlighted expression and the apparent subject of the error sentence, I'm not even sure that printing the expression is so critical. If this were a command line compilation, then I expect an error message would be along the lines of, "Line 8, Column 7: Expression produced 2 values, but the context expected 1." Or, if the expression, when printed, is reasonably short, "Line 8, (values 'a 'b): Expression produced 2 values, but the context expected 1." Anthony _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
