meta-issue on confusing type error messages #7338
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This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
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What do we want to do with such meta-issues ? I'm not sure how useful they are. Maybe we should turn them into tags ? |
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Are you sure how useful tags are? Meta-issues also provide a place for discussion, and are easy to use using the cross-reference mechanisms between issues. |
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This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
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There are still live issues connected to this meta-issue. |
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There is a label "error-messages", I suggest to assign it to this issue, it will finding all these error message improvements easier: |
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This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
Original bug ID: 7338
Reporter: @gasche
Status: confirmed (set by @gasche on 2016-08-30T06:30:10Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: text
Version: undecided
Target version: later
Category: typing
Parent of: #5888 #6173 #7336 #7565 #7574
Monitored by: @Drup @hcarty @dbuenzli
Bug description
The ticket #5068 serves as a parent issue for reports of confusing syntax error messages. This ticket can serve as parent issue for reports of confusing typing error messages.
Additional information
It may not be obvious for beginners to tell whether an error is a type error or syntax error (syntax errors have "Syntax error" in the error message and occur before -dsource output), and some typos at the syntactic level result in typing errors, but experienced users would do the triaging. The reason to separate them is that the ways to fix them, and thus the cost/benefit analysis inherent in any discussion, are very different.
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