value of documenting error messages?

[Jakob Brünker]

For what it's worth, there is an existing proposal about this topic, maybe
that's the right place to discuss it for a user-focused perspective.

See https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/325

Jakob

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 9:10 PM Tom Ellis <
tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2017 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
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