Re: Feedback on GM2 error messages

[Gaius Mulley]

Michael Riedl <udo-michael.riedl@t-online.de> writes:

> Gaius,
>
> just translating some foreign code to Modula-2 to get rid of some
> copyrighted code in my numerical library. Normally I first run such
> code after the first conversion through XDS M2 as GM2 (in the past)
> made quite some error messages which where hard to understand or
> pointed to wrong line numbers in the code.
>
> By fortune XDS crashed during the first compilation without any hint
> what went wrong (a unmatched "{{" in a spoiled constant vector
> declaration). Hence I used GM2 for the first round of compilations.
>
> The error messages have significantly improved and where helpful in
> removing the "usual" stuff going wrong - typos, case mismatch, wrong
> symbols etc. etc.
>
> Many thanks for these improvements !!!

Hi Michael,

thanks for the feedback!  Next on the agenda is locale error messages.
Improving error messages is fun and rewarding,

regards,
Gaius