On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 04:29:55PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-31 04:58, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > So my beef is when you feed these guys an undefined > > > > variable, that they needs to tell you it requires > > > > a "defined" variable. Not a bunch of useless rubbish. > > > > For example (useless rubbish): > > And also... I thought I mentioned this before. You want a more clear > > error message for*one* *single* specific case of a "can't find this > > method, did you mean one of these?" error message. I tried to explain > > that this error message is one that is displayed in many cases, not only > > for "you passed an undefined thing, I want a defined thing"; in my > > opinion, it is actually quite helpful in that it actually lists > > the candidates in a "did you mean one of these?" style. > > > > You want it to be clear if you pass an undefined value where a defined > > value was expected; that would mean that somebody would have to write > > the code to make it check whether it is this very specific case and then > > that code would have to be maintained for years and years. Tomorrow > > you'll say "but can't it give me a more clear message when I pass an > > integer and it expected a string?" and the day after tomorrow you'll say > > "but can't it give me a more clear message when I pass a string and it > > expected a function?". > > > > The error message says "you passed an object of this type, and I can't > > find this method for this type; here are a couple of types that have > > this method, did you mean one of these?" It tells you what the types > > are, and it doesn't have to have thousands of special cases. It tells > > you what the types are. > > Hi Peter, > > I like that you in-line and bottom post. You are a lot > easier to follow. > > I think are talking at cross purposes. Let me give an > example: > > Q: is a "cow" a "Plant"? > A: a "cow" in not a hazel nut > A: a "cow" in not a radish > A: a "cow" in not a carrot > A: a "cow" in not a cabbage > ... > > Are all of the answers a correct? > Yes.. Evey answer is completely correct. > > Are any of the answers helpful? > No
Right. So, once again, just as I said, you are only interested in one of the answers - "Str:U is not a Str:D, you want a Str:D". However, how should Raku know *which* one of the answers you are interested in? Tomorrow you may pass an integer to a function that only accepts strings and floating-point numbers; should Raku tell you "you must pass a string, not an integer" or "you must pass a floating-point number, not an integer"? Raku doesn't know which one of those you meant. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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