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Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude.

From glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude.
Date 2014-12-30 02:57 +0000
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federation2005@netzero.com wrote:
> What if your compiler had an attitude problem? I was thinking of funny things
> it could do for error-handling (maybe with a -X switch for GenX/Millennial
> verbose output):

> * It addresses you like "Dude! You boffed the syntax again." or the like.

> * It tells you to get glasses if you keep missing semicolons [Note 1].

> * If you use older or archaic style (particularly, deprecated stuff), it makes
> fun of you and asks if you need help with your walker. [Note 2].

(snip)

WYLBUR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORVYL_and_WYLBUR

has different messages that it prints on April 1st (or, at least, the
one I used to use had them) along similar lines.

-- glen

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Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude. federation2005@netzero.com - 2014-12-29 13:51 -0800
  Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude. glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-30 02:57 +0000
  Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude. Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2014-12-30 11:27 -0500
  Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude. Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-12-30 13:13 -0800
  Re: Error-handling if your compiler had an attitude. Christophe de Dinechin <christophe.de.dinechin@gmail.com> - 2015-01-12 07:25 -0800

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