On 28 Jul 2009, at 08:16, Alex Rozenman wrote:
Can you explain your motivation a little more? Is it that you want
to
reuse the same *_at invocations to list variants in both the
warning and
complaint cases? You could add to note_at a bool argument that
specifies
whether to invoke warn_at or complain_at.
My motivation was the following:
1) Keep overall *number* of errors/warnings issued by bison
reasonable. When
bison issues an "ambiguity" error with 10 sub-messages, overall
number of
errors (if one does "grep" on output, or, alternatively bison itself
will
count them and print a summary message) should be one.
2) Not to see the "warning" word in each sub-message.
This was discussed before, but in a bit different context (diagnostic
messages for the Bison generated parser):
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bison/2000-10/msg00072.html
Some compilers, in addition to error and warning diagnostic messages,
can issue "info".
Hans
