Somewhat offtopic but could the *SL languages use levenshtien distances to find symbolically related variables? clang (a c++ compiler) does this and I find it immensely useful.
foodar(); Error: `foodar' not found, did you mean 'foobar' ? On 06/03/2011 11:21 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Guillaume, Kathi and I have created a set of guidelines for writing > error messages for *SL. For consistency, these guidelines need to be > used also by authors of libraries including Teachpacks, etc. These > guidelines are currently being applied to all the error messages in > *SL in the core distribution. > > Please review these guidelines and let us know if anything is > unclear. We'd like to hear back from you within a week, by > > Fri, June 10 > > We have had to compromise on the description a little to make > everything fit into a small number of pages, which we did because we > really do hope people will print these out and put them on the wall or > next to their monitor to refer to while writing code. Therefore, > lengthy descriptions are out. > > In particular, rationale is also out. If you are curious about the > rationales for any of these things, please do ask. > > After this is settled next week, we will send this to users@ and also > to edu@ to tell instructors to follow these terms. > > Thanks, > Shriram > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
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