On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Doug Gregor wrote: > It occurs to me that, if we were sufficiently crazy, we could actually > use this in (HTML) error messages. If you trigger an ambiguous > conversion from a derived pointer to a base pointer (where there are > multiple bases of the same type), it could show you the various paths. > I was actually planning to just print the paths in ASCII, e.g., > D->B->A, D->C->A, but showing it graphically would be way cooler.
Wow, that would be really cool to do someday. This is also something that could be exposed through a sufficiently smart IDE. If you have good crazy ideas like this, please add them to the clang/NOTES.txt file so they just don't get lost. -Chris _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
