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Templates for error reporting #8218

Closed erak closed 1 year ago

erak commented 4 years ago

Abstract

Support a more readable and consistent error reporting. Whiskers came up as a reference.

Motivation

Came out of https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/pull/8103.

Specification

E.g. "Cannot use <to_string(operator)> on <type.string()>."

christianparpart commented 4 years ago

I really like the idea of streamlining error reports. But if Whiskers is the right way to do that, I am not too sure.

My initial motivation was to improve readability of error messages by using semantic colouring, something that would be a convenient argument for using fmtlib (part of C++20's std::format), so that passing custom types to the error formatter could be auto-colorized & pretty-printed without additional effort on the caller side.

cameel commented 3 years ago

This PR seems relevant in this context: #11273.

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