“Couldn't the confusing wording be fixed without additional information?”
Yes. But how? We can't *remove* this hint because sometimes it is super useful. On 2017-10-06 11:13:34, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:10:22 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > To produce an error message that is more precise we'll need more > > information > > than just a line number, but we don't have that during the run time. > > Couldn't the confusing wording be fixed without additional > information? > > As I understand it, the problem with the current message is that the > > in '⏏~' (indicated by ⏏) > > part leads people to think it's referring to a position in the source > code, when it is actually referring to a position in a string. > Especially because the "in block ... in file ... at line ..." line > comes directly after it.
