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"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:
> > Perhaps related but much more important to me would be a general
> cleanup of the output of the SPAD compiler. Right now it might be at
> best said to be "spectacularly obscure". (I recall Gaby quoting one of
> his students who shared this view of the SPAD output and error
> messages.). It seems to me that the current diagnostic output was
> intended to be intelligible only to someone who was familiar with the
> internal design of the SPAD compiler. Surely it is possible to produce
> compiler output that makes sense to someone who only programs at the
> SPAD level.
I wish I had the motivation to do the work and refit the current
compiler with a proper error facility. This is just another thing I
hope to solve `for free' as a consequence of the Lisp rewrite.