Re: The source file culture

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Jacques Chester <jacques@chester.id.au> writes:
>> error messages that might as well be written in Sumerian cuneform,
>
> At the risk of inciting a flamewar, this is really GCC's fault,
> not Lua's. ICC and Clang/LLVM, for example, give very helpful
> error messages.

That seems a dubious claim...  There are always particular cases where
any given compiler gives bad errors, but I've not noticed any general
difference in clarity between gcc's error messages and other compilers.

[and of course, if you're a windows user who's been inculcated into
fearing even the _concept_ of a compiler, the mere presence of any error
message at all is frightening...]

-Miles

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