Hello glasgow-haskell-users,
as you may remember, in GHC survey awkward error messages was named as
one of most serious GHC drawbacks. i propose to start collecting
examples of bad error messages together with what we want to see in
these cases. as first contribution, i've added this text as
http:
| as you may remember, in GHC survey awkward error messages was named as
| one of most serious GHC drawbacks. i propose to start collecting
| examples of bad error messages together with what we want to see in
| these cases. as first contribution, i've added this text as
| http://hackage.haskell.or
(Sent to glasgow-haskell-users rather than haskell, as it is GHC-specific.)
If we were writing a C library rather than a Haskell library, we could make
"head" a macro which included an appropriate message referring to __FILE__
and __LINE__. The equivalent in Glasgow Haskell would be to make head
