8 Sep
2003
8 Sep
'03
7:57 p.m.
I am wondering whether "inline" error messages are such a good idea? I guess there's a good chance that they remain in the updated and re-sent message. That could give us another set of failure modes.
do you send the diagnostic output back to a compiler?
_I_ would probably go for a more descriptive error message at the end, including the _attribute_ that made the reference, _and_ the _string_ used as a reference.
then have line and character position numbers. you _really_ need a completely unambiguous trail to the offending text randy