Re: quoting in error messages

2006-04-10 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >`thing' > > >"thing" > > We should be using Unicode left/right single quotes if the locale > supports it (U+2018, U+2019). Better still, use a different color for > quoted code fragments if the terminal supports it. You could make the high

Re: quoting in error messages

2006-04-10 Thread Simon Marlow
Henrik Nilsson wrote: > What do others think? It'd be dead easy to replace >`thing' > by >"thing" > in GHC's error messages, if that's what a majority want. Double quotes looks preferable to me. All the best, We should be using Unicode left/right single quotes if the locale sup

Re: quoting in error messages

2006-04-07 Thread Henrik Nilsson
> What do others think? It'd be dead easy to replace >`thing' > by >"thing" > in GHC's error messages, if that's what a majority want. Double quotes looks preferable to me. All the best, /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science and Information Technology The University of

RE: quoting in error messages

2006-04-07 Thread Axel Simon
rrors do not involve string constants and `foo' is rather awkward unless run through latex. Axel. > Simon > > | -Original Message- > | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:glasgow-haskell-bugs- > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederik Eaton > | Sent: 07 April 2006

RE: quoting in error messages

2006-04-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
f Of Frederik Eaton | Sent: 07 April 2006 13:40 | To: glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org | Subject: quoting in error messages | | Hi, | | This is quite a minor issue but I just wanted to point out that it | would be a little easier on the eye to use double quotes rather than | paired singl

quoting in error messages

2006-04-07 Thread Frederik Eaton
Hi, This is quite a minor issue but I just wanted to point out that it would be a little easier on the eye to use double quotes rather than paired single quotes in error messages e.g.: Couldn't match the rigid variable `d'' against `Bar a' `d'' is bound by the polymorphic type `forall d