From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Improving error messages Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 15:31:54 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87k7feom2d.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <20030302130105.GC422@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046814945 24792 80.91.224.249 (4 Mar 2003 21:55:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 22:55:41 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qK0x-00057Q-00 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 22:31:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qK1K-00039t-01 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:32:18 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qK0y-00037A-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qK0x-00036r-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:31:56 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl093-098-016.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.93.98.16] helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qK0x-00036Q-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:31:55 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C5A13C70; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:31:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7834BD92CA; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:31:54 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Wolfgang Jaehrling In-Reply-To: <20030302130105.GC422@gmx.de> (Wolfgang Jaehrling's message of "Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:01:05 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2023 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2023 Wolfgang Jaehrling 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 > 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. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel