Re: Improving output of syntax errors
| From: | Claude Pache | Date: | Mon, 29 Jun 2020 06:27:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Improving output of syntax errors | ||
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> As a special-case, quoted strings show the string's *content* in double quotes, e.g.
> 'unexpected quoted string "foo" ...' rather than 'unexpected quoted string
> ""foo"" ...' or 'unexpected quoted string "'foo'"
> ...'.
For me, in this case, you have dropped the wrong pair of quotes. That is, I prefer to see the quotes
used in the source text (“unexpected string 'foo' ...” or “unexpected string
"foo" ...”), over the quotes that make error messages consistent with other error
messages. This is because I like to have hints that help me to visually identify the offending
string in the source text when it is of length 0 or 1, but on other hand I don’t care about
consistency across error messages.
—Claude