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digitalmars.D.learn - Building good error message in templates?

reply renoX <renosky free.fr> writes:
One problem with the templates is that currently when there is an error, the
line number showed in the message is the line in the template and there is no
way to print the line number of the caller except by having the caller do
myTemplate!(__LINE__, ...) which is quite ugly.

For a mixin, an advice was to return a 'static assert' which would be evaluated
in the caller, this works ok when the caller is a function, but it doesn't work
very well when the caller is used for example as a function parameter.

Are there other way I'm missing?
renoX
Mar 12 2007
parent reply Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists gmail.com> writes:
renoX wrote:
 One problem with the templates is that currently when there is an error, the
line number showed in the message is the line in the template and there is no
way to print the line number of the caller except by having the caller do
myTemplate!(__LINE__, ...) which is quite ugly.
 
 For a mixin, an advice was to return a 'static assert' which would be
evaluated in the caller, this works ok when the caller is a function, but it
doesn't work very well when the caller is used for example as a function
parameter.
 
 Are there other way I'm missing?
 renoX
Not that I'm aware of. A while back, I suggested the addition of a context "object" that templates would have access to that would allow them to say "`Error on line ` ~ context.line" and have it come out right. I don't think I ever received comment from our BDFL, tho :P At the moment, tho, I suppose the best you can do is print out an error message, static assert(false), and then let the user work out where to look from the instantiation error. -- Daniel -- Unlike Knuth, I have neither proven or tried the above; it may not even make sense. v2sw5+8Yhw5ln4+5pr6OFPma8u6+7Lw4Tm6+7l6+7D i28a2Xs3MSr2e4/6+7t4TNSMb6HTOp5en5g6RAHCP http://hackerkey.com/
Mar 12 2007
parent johannes <hannes__d hotmail.com> writes:
Hello,

there is a possibility called concepts. One way to define themn is to use boost
concept check. The other is to use the compiler conceptGCC.

Actually this is for c++, I don't know if there is something like that for D.

Johannes
Sep 19 2007