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What value is there for a syntax error to include the term "token" in it's message? Is there an expectation that users are familiar with parsing concepts? Seems pretty ridiculous.
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Would you suggest something more like "Syntax error near <code>" followed by a code frame?
When there’s a syntax error it’s always being produced from a specific callsite. That callsite knows exactly why it was expecting a specific token. Rather than “Unexpected token, expected ;”, I think it should say “Unexpected CHAR, expected ; as the end of a statement” etc
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When I used to write my own parsers an extremely very long time ago, I always tried to do this, because I generally *did* have the information to make the error message specific about what was expected, so that the programmer could fix things quickly and retry.
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So is it fair to say that your problem wit syntax errors are their syntax?
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