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From: bordes@hpgnd.HP.COM (Olivier BORDES)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Objective-C and compilation errors messages
Message-ID: <20850002@hpgnd.HP.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 09:02:45 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, GND
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I am tired of these stupid (to not say more) error messages provided
by the objective-C compiler !

I enjoyed messages like:

	"Illegal syntax at or near @implementation" 
	
when the error is in fact located far before the '@implementation' keyword
(located in one of the imported files imported at the beginning of the file).

or message like ...
	"expected ) found toto."

... this message appears after a declaration like:
	toto * pointer;
and means that the type toto has not been declared before !
Could'nt the compiler say that the type 'toto' has not been defined
before ?

Even now, with two years pratice of Objective-C, I am tired of
the incoherence of these error messages.
Please Stepstone, do something for error messages in your compiler !!!



Olivier_Bordes@hpgnd.hp.com             (Hewlett-Packard Grenoble)

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