value of documenting error messages?

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

I think in practical terms for IDE-based people, a short standardised
alphanumeric identifier makes sense. These typically get displayed along
with the full error text in the error pane, and it helps to be able to
allocate a known, standard amount of real estate to them.  Fundamentally
they are just an index into something else, you will either copy/paste it,
or click on it.

Alan

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 20:16, Jakob Brünker <jakob.bruenker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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