Strange syntax error message around illegal packaged module signature constraints #7097
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Comment author: @gasche Thanks for the report. We are planning to work on syntax error messages (not in the 4.03 timeframe though, but rather in 2016), and collecting concrete examples of programs where the syntax error message is unhelpful (because it is unclear, or because it seems to point to the wrong location or doesn't help finding the cause) is very useful as it will serve as a testbed for our new approach. |
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Comment author: @alainfrisch Fixed by commit e1e0382 on trunk. |
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Original bug ID: 7097
Reporter: furuse
Assigned to: @alainfrisch
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2017-09-24T15:31:42Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: major
Version: 4.02.3
Fixed in version: 4.03.0+dev / +beta1
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Child of: #5068
Monitored by: @hcarty
Bug description
The following illegal code has a typical mistake of having parametered type in a constraint of a packaged module type:
let insert_twice (type u) (module M : S with type 'a t = 'a u) a at =
M.insert a (M.insert a at)
The error message of the parser is very cryptic:
Error: Syntax error: module-expr expected.
The syntaxes of the normal signature and packed signatures are very similar but different, therefore we should have better message to inform that you cannot have parameters there.
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