[Menhir-list] Error reporting

[Rémi Dewitte]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer.

How hard do you think it will be ?
If you could give few hints about how to get started to implement this
feature, I might try.

My intuition is that it could be done in codeGeneration.ml ...

Cheers,
Rémi

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 13:19, Francois Pottier
<Francois.Pottier at inria.fr>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:18:56PM +0100, Rémi Dewitte wrote:
> > I would like to give a more detailed error message when the user submits
> a
> > script with a syntax error. Something like :
> > Got token COMMA expected one of SEMICOLON, LPAREN.
> >
> > I have found it pretty easy to implement the Got token part from the
> lexer,
> > but I can't find a way to get more info from menhir parser. Do you have
> an
> > idea ?
>
> At the moment, there is no way to obtain the set of tokens that would not
> have
> caused an error.
>
> In principle, it should be possible to add this feature under some form. I
> will add this to the feature wish list, but don't hold your breath -- we
> don't have time to actively work on Menhir at the moment.
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> François Pottier
> Francois.Pottier at inria.fr
> http://gallium.inria.fr/~fpottier/
>
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