On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected]> wrote: > I've changed how online check syntax reports errors. Instead of > hilighting the source location in gold, it puts a little reddish thing > in the right-hand margin where the error is. The goal is to make this > less obtrusive in, say, lecture, but also to make it less painful for > those among us who edit programs in such a way as to keep the parens > always balanced. > > Let me know if you think it is an improvement or not
I like this a lot (I'm one of the those people too). It would be great if either or both of clicking the "Jump to error" button or clicking on the red highlighting enabled the highlighting of the actual error. For example, this Typed Racket program is now hard to understand the error in: #lang typed/racket (: f : Integer String -> Any) (define (f x y) #f) (f 5 5) because you can't tell which 5 is the problem. Speaking of things that would improve the experience of those who keep parens balanced, if the error message appearing didn't move the division between the definitions and interactions window, that would be really nice. -- sam th [email protected] _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
