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I've been iterating further on how Garden shows type errors.
For types in the standard library, I'm now showing "a String" but "an Int". I'm also doing basic syntax highlighting of the code excerpt.
What do you think?
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I've been impressed with code written by Fable in my testing:
Difftastic: found small optimisations in a hot loop I'd already profiled extensively. Helped me prototype Dijkstra to A* too (hard to find a good heuristic).
Garden: Found some real bugs in my simplistic typechecker.
What types should you infer when code is invalid?
In Garden, + only applies to integers. What should the type of "x" + "y" be?
(1) Int: This produces cascading errors.
(2) String: We've already emitted an error anyway.
(3) Bottom.
Opinions?
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