This VCL compiler thing...

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> I know some people are quite religious about error messages, so here
> are a couple of samples from the VCL compiler:
>
>
> 	Unreferenced  function 'request_policy', first mention is
> 	Line 8 Pos 4
> 	sub request_policy {
> 	----##############--
>
>
> 	Unknown variable 'obj.bandwidth'
> 	At: Line 88 Pos 12
> 		if (obj.bandwidth < 1 kb/h) {
> 	------------#############------------
>
>
> 	Assignments not possible for 'backend.down'
> 	Line 88 Pos 25
> 		set backend.down = 1;
> 	-------------------------#---
>
>
> 	Expected action, 'if' or '}'
> 	Line 88 Pos 8
> 		backend.down = 1;
> 	--------############-----
>
>
> 	Syntax error at
> 	Line 80 Pos 13
> 		fetch@;
> 	-------------#-
>
> Is that livable ?

Good enough for government work.  We can add a command-line option
later to generate editor-friendly error messages.

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Senior Software Developer
Linpro AS - www.linpro.no