Cryptic error messages, linter unusable

tonyhffong / Lint.jl

A lint tool for Julia code

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Cryptic error messages, linter unusable #267

Closed norru closed 4 years ago

norru commented 4 years ago

I've installed latest Lint.jl and tried it on some code. All i get is gibberish:

julia> lintfile("./lib/IvtMesh/test/runtests.jl")
./lib/IvtMesh/test/runtests.jl:11 E111 : MethodError(convert, (Symbol, :($(Expr(:., :Test)))), 0x000000000000688c)

Is there a way to convert those error messages into a human-readable form?

This is running in Julia 1.3.0

Thanks.

norru commented 4 years ago

Never mind, as I understand this functionality needs to be implemented by a front-end. As I understand, Lint.jl is not supposed to be user-facing.

Unfortunately the front-end I am using seems to be assuming exactly the opposite. I'll chase the other side.