value of documenting error messages?

[Carter Schonwald]

Yes! Thanks for articulating it so nicely

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 2:51 PM Alan & Kim Zimmerman <alan.zimm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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