bearophile wrote:
I wasn't implying that DMD is bad regarding error messages,
"acts very badly" kinda means the same thing :-)
on the contrary DMD error messages are better than the ones given by GCC on
C. But there's always space for improvements (see bug 5004) :-)
I have seen several people say good things about Clang. DMD often produces
error messages as good as Clang ones, and yet no one says equally good things
on Reddit about this good feature of D/DMD :-( I think a bit more
advertisement on this will be positive (I may write a post about this
somewhere).
Back in the 80s, when magazines published benchmarks on the 30 or so C
compilers, often the Zortech compiler was the fastest, and Borland came in
second. Despite what the journalist's own data showed, they'd then proceed to
write in the accompanying text that Borland's was the fastest. It was
unbelievably frustrating.
Of course those people have to develop C/C++ code, instead of D,
so they are rightly more interested in a good tool for C/C++.
Walter:
It's the very next token. There's nothing wrong with the message.
In that case I prefer the error message to refer to the line where the
semicolon is absent. I may ask a poll to other D users to see if they agree
with me or not on this.
It's of very questionable value when you consider that D is not a line oriented
language at all. There is no correct placement of ; in a sequence of whitespace.
