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Re: Improving error messages


From: Rob Browning
Subject: Re: Improving error messages
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:31:54 -0600
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Wolfgang Jaehrling <address@hidden> writes:

> I think that a weak point of Guile are the error messages, which are
> often very terse.  This is not much of a problem once you are used to
> it and know what the messages refer to, but when I was new to Guile
> (and new to Scheme at the same time), this was a major problem for me.
> Thus, I decided to try my best to make Guile more newbie-friendly.  At
> <http://www.8ung.at/shell/guile.patch> you find a very incomplete
> patch, and I would like to know if it goes into the right direction at
> all: Is this the kind of stuff you would want?

>From a quick look, it appears pretty good to me.  Though I'd like to
hear what someone more familiar with eval.c thinks.

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Rob Browning
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