value of documenting error messages?

[Tom Ellis]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 07:03:25PM +0000, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
> > To me this seems like a rare opportunity to do something where people
> > will say "Hey look, that formidable Haskell compiler is doing
> > something that's friendlier than the equivalent in any other
> > compiler!".  For such an important user-facing feature I don't
> > understand why we're not asking users what they prefer.
> 
> I agree completely here! Let's ask! (Remember that this thread,
> posted to ghc-devs, was originally about documenting the GHC source
> code, something that would not affect users.)

Yes indeed.  Let's one of us start a user-focused thread elsewhere
(whoever gets round to it first) and post a link here so interested
parties here can join in.

Tom