Where is the error?
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Mon Aug 7 05:08:00 EDT 2023
On 07Aug2023 08:02, Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> 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.
No, a PDP-11 using V7 UNIX.
>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.
Neat.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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