OpenEuphoria

Re: Suboptimal error message

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> May 20, 2005
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Pete Lomax wrote:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005 16:50:29 -0700, Robert Craig wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> It actually makes some sense.
> What/which did you mean makes some sense?
>
> (Myself, I'm ok with integer integer, providing that you don't expect
> to be able to define another integer anytime soon, not that I'll ever
> use or miss it. However I'd obviously prefer better error messages at
> the expense of this "flexibility". There were a few cases I found in
> existing code where a user-defined type was also used as a local
> variable in win32lib and the IDE, as I recall, but all easily fixable)

IMHO in such cases Euphoria simply should stop parsing and generate a
syntax error. Even if it was easily fixable by you, what about less
experienced programmers, especially Euphoria mewbies? And is there any
advantage in allowing things like that?
I'm not asking for much, I only want Euphoria to be to cleanest, best
readable, most simple and most robust programming language on this
planet. 

> Regards,
> Pete
> PS I can't remember clearly, either Derek or Judith or both made some
> changes already when I queried this last year sometime.

Regards,
   Juergen