# New Ticket Created by Claudio # Please include the string: [perl #128983] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128983 >
Hi, I having a go at adding syntax checking support to vim using the syntastic plugin (https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic). My plugin, syntastic-perl6 (https://github.com/nxadm/syntastic-perl6), adds Perl 6 support and so far it seems to work. Syntastic upstream accepted my PR adding support to Perl 6 (so regular users would get Perl 6 support out of the box), but the changes live for now in a test branch. I agree with upstream that error parsing for languages that don't spit out structured data is fragile (Perl 6 is not alone) and thus needs tesing. And the error parsing is fragile indeed (e.g. ignoring new types of errors) as it's based on vimscript regular expressions of the rather irregular "perl6 -c" error output. As jnthn suggested on irc, maybe an additional JSON error output would be great solution for this. This would make error parsing for external tooling very easy and stable. And good tooling is one of the things that Perl 6 needs at the moment. So, consider this as a post-it note in case you run out of bugs. I am looking now at the rakudo internals, but I doubt I know it enough to implement it myself. Regards, C. (El_Che)
