Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.daimi.aau.dk!lynbech From: lynbech@xenon.daimi.aau.dk (Christian Lynbech) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Why can't we have ... ? Date: 19 Sep 1994 07:34:58 GMT Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. of Aarhus Univ. Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <35j89j$3l5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: xenon.daimi.aau.dk In-reply-to: olm@Eng.Sun.COM's message of 19 Sep 1994 05:41:07 GMT >>>>> "Ole" == Ole Lehrmann Madsen writes: Ole> aas@velociraptor.nr.no (Gisle Aas) writes: >> 2) Better warning error messages from the compiler. For instance, >> when types don't match, why can't the compiler tell me what types >> it sees on each side of the arrow. Ole> This has been improved in release 3.0. If there are still cases Ole> with poor error messages please send such examples to Ole> support@mjolner.dk This may have been fixed, but it would be real nice if there was a possibility to have the compiler generate warning/error messages with sourcecode linenumbers attached. It would make the compile/debug/edit cycle so much more convenient, at least for us emacs users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christian Lynbech | Hit the philistines three times over the office: R0.33 (phone: 3217) | head with the Elisp reference manual. email: lynbech@daimi.aau.dk | - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------