Re: [PATCH] Re: named references

[Joel E. Denny]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Akim Demaille wrote:

> 
> Le 20 mars 09 ? 16:23, Joel E. Denny a ?crit :
> 
> > > I'm not sure asymmetric will be understandable in error messages.
> > > Maybe "partial" would be more appropriate?
> > 
> > I agree "asymmetric" is a confusing name.  "partial" may be better.  A few
> > other ideas off the top of my head: "incomplete", "nonuniform",
> > "inconsistent".
> 
> Or reword completely:
> 
>       incomplete resolution of name collision on `foo'

A simpler possibility may be to just say "reference is misleading" as in 
the case where dots cause confusion.  A "refers to" and "possibly meant" 
will clear up the confusion.  For example:

  lhs: rhs[first] rhs { $rhs; } ;

Bison would report:

  interpreter.ypp:74.43-52: reference is misleading: `$rhs'
  interpreter.ypp:73.38-46: (refers to: `$[rhs]' at $2)
  interpreter.ypp:73.38-46: (possibly meant: `$[rhs]' hidden at $1)

(I didn't update column numbers, so ignore that.)