Where is the error?

Barry barry at barrys-emacs.org
Mon Aug 7 03:02:40 EDT 2023



> On 7 Aug 2023, at 05:28, Cameron Simpson via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
> 
> Used to use a Pascal compiler once which was uncannily good at suggesting where you'd missing a semicolon.

Was that on DEC VMS? It was a goal at DEC for its compilers to do this well.
They could output the errors in a machine readable format to allow editors to auto fix.

I am learning rust and it is very good at suggesting fixes.
There is a command to apply fixes automatically, cargo fix.

Barry






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