> as far as I can tell, it means exactly what it says, and I don't know how it could be friendlier.
the error message 'declaration fun is already defined' is surprising because 'void fun(int x);' and 'void fun();' are typically 2 different function declarations, having different signatures. So this this sounds misleading/surprising. > if you have a good suggestion as to improve the error message, please create an enhancement request for it how about: 'cannot overload a function in a nested scope' On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisp...@gmx.com>wrote: > On Thursday, May 16, 2013 00:28:15 Timothee Cour wrote: > > at the very least (or until it gets fixed) dmd should emit a more > friendly > > error message: > > 'cannot overload a function in a nested scope' > > otherwise this is hard to understand. > > I don't know what else it would say. It means exactly what it says. It's > telling you exactly what it can't do. Sure, it isn't telling you _why_ it's > illegal, but error messages don't usually say that sort of thing anyway. > So, > if you have a good suggestion as to improve the error message, please > create > an enhancement request for it, but as far as I can tell, it means exactly > what > it says, and I don't know how it could be friendlier. > > - Jonathan M Davis >
