Re: Interested to help with error messages

2017-06-03 Thread Ben Gamari
Alan & Kim Zimmerman writes: > Thanks Ben, a great summary. Is there a Wiki page for this? It feels like > it should be on one, so we can easily comment/update the individual points. > Here you are: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PrettyErrors In the interest of time I essentially just pa

Re: Interested to help with error messages

2017-06-03 Thread Alan & Kim Zimmerman
Thanks Ben, a great summary. Is there a Wiki page for this? It feels like it should be on one, so we can easily comment/update the individual points. In terms of the pretty-printer and its string type. Perhaps we could backpackify it to use http://next.hackage.haskell.org:8080/package/str-sig, an

Re: Interested to help with error messages

2017-06-03 Thread Ben Gamari
CCing, * Alfredo Di Napoli for his on-going work in this area * Shivansh Rai for his interest in contributing * David Luposchainsky for his recent pretty-printer library * Richard Eisenberg due to his participation in #8809 * Bartosz for his participation in #10735 * Alan Zimmerm

Interested to help with error messages

2017-06-03 Thread Siddharth Bhat
Hello all, Thanks for all the work that's put into GHC :) I've tried to get into GHC development before, but I was unsuccessful, mostly because I didn't dedicate enough time to understanding the problem at hand & exploring the codebase. I'd like to give it another shot. This time, I think I have