From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Improving error messages
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:31:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7feom2d.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030302130105.GC422@gmx.de> (Wolfgang Jaehrling's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:01:05 +0100")
Wolfgang Jaehrling <pro-linux@gmx.de> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-02 13:01 Improving error messages Wolfgang Jaehrling
2003-03-04 21:31 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-03-19 19:48 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-03-23 13:04 ` Wolfgang Jaehrling
2003-03-23 20:33 ` Marius Vollmer
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