Re: Spell checking identifiers

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:08:03 -0000 (UTC)

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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 20:08:03 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: news.netcologne.de
References: 20-06-010 20-06-014
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Keywords: lex, errors
Posted-Date: 24 Jun 2020 17:25:13 EDT

Kaz Kylheku <937-053-0959@kylheku.com> schrieb:
> On 2020-06-23, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote:
>> 5 | return j; // the variable, not the type.
>> | ^ help: a local variable with a similar name exists: `i`


> I don't find these kinds of childish diagnostic messages useful at all.
>
> They have started to appear in GCC also.


> The good old "undeclared identifier `j`" requires no update, thanks.


At least gcc doesn't do the suggestion in that particular case:


foo.c: In function 'foo':
foo.c:8:7: error: 'j' undeclared (first use in this function)
        8 | x[j] = a[i] > b[i];
            | ^
foo.c:8:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

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