Hello Max, Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:14:50 AM, you wrote:
> As to whether it's confusing, I sometimes have to read these messages > a few times (sometimes it's unclear which expression is being referred > to, or why GHC thinks that the expression has a certain type), but the > words themselves are clear in their meaning to me. can you recall early times of your work with GHC? i think that these words are non-obvious for novices. finally it becomes part of your instincts as anything else often used. but it can be learning barrier. overall, hard-to-understand error messages was elected as one of 3 most important GHC problems in the survey conducted several years ago -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe