Error Messages can they be made more intuitive?

[jiggneshhgohel]

I have just started programming in elm-lang because of the positive responses I noticed on Twitter and various channels.

One of the selling points I have noticed is the intuitive error messages Elm compiler generates while parsing code. Inline with this I would like to share my experience about this w.r.t the behavior I encountered while I am trying to follow the tutorial at https://www.elm-tutorial.org/en/

Attached is the error message which was reported.

At first glance I was unable to figure out what was the issue because comparing the code I wrote with the one shown in the tutorial was looking identical. Then I noticed that in tutorial it is MouseMsg Mouse.Position and I typed MouseMsg Mouse.position (notice the small-case p in Position).

I then checked the documentation and found that Position is a type-alias for a record. This made me think that wouldn't it be great if in the list of items shown by

I am looking for one of the following things:

included Position because I was trying to access a type-alias defined in the Mouse module. In other words if I am trying to access something part of the library and I mis-typed in my code then the error message should consider that possibility too.

To convey my point I would like to use an analogy of Object-Oriented Programming's Class, Properties and Methods concepts. In present case Class is Mouse and Position can be considered as a Property or a Method or even a Nested-Class too.

I really have no idea what it would take to get this behavior but wanted to share my thoughts on this when I am seeing a lot of people being amazed by the elm-compiler's generated intuitive errors.

Thanks.

Reference: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/elm-discuss/mSDjOm1Wj5o/5CgPz8orAAAJ