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From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.objective-c
Subject: Re: Objective-C and compilation errors messages
Message-ID: <90302.110141UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 16:01:41 GMT
References: <20850002@hpgnd.HP.COM>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <20850002@hpgnd.HP.COM>, bordes@hpgnd.HP.COM (Olivier BORDES) says:

>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 ?


The "right" way to handle this is for the ID of the error message to
be listed in an error message manual.  There should be a discussion, perhaps
even a fairly long one, of all of the ways that programmers screw up
that produce that particular message.

Better yet, this "manual" that explains all the ways to produce a
particular message should be online.

                                    lee