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Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstr
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martin rudalics |
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Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps. |
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Sat, 01 Dec 2018 17:31:26 +0100 |
>> IMO the "byte compiler bug" has a simple fix which, however, nobody
>> but me would accept: When there is the slightest doubt do not print
>> position indications.
>
> IMO, that would be a change for the worse: currently we at least have
> a position near the locus of the problem, which does limit the search
> to some extent.
Yes and I know that everybody else agrees with you. But I replied to
Alan's remark that I "prefer fast buggy software over slightly slower
functional software".
>> Also I don't understand why it should be the byte compiler's task to
>> check the syntax of expressions for correctness.
>
> Because that's what any other compiler out there does?
Doesn't "any other compiler out there" also leave me the choice what I
want to check?
martin
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., martin rudalics, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps.,
martin rudalics <=
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., martin rudalics, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Michael Heerdegen, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Alan Mackenzie, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Eli Zaretskii, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Paul Eggert, 2018/12/01
- Re: scratch/accurate-warning-pos: Solid progress: the branch now bootstraps., Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/12/01