Do you have a favourite way of highlighting text in a CLI error message? Currently I'm using backticks, but I'm wondering what's the most readable.
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Doing another iteration on my diagnostics display. I'm reasonably happy with the bold highlighting within the error message.
I'm not sure about the colour on Warning and Error though. It gives the output some visual structure, but arguably the message itself is more important.
I've been using "Expected Int, but got String" for my type error messages, but I've been wondering if I could do better.
"Expected Int here, but this value has type String" or "This expression requires Int, but the value is String".
Do you have a favourite?
Really cute approach to reporting type errors: when there's a type error, show an example of a runtime error that the type check has prevented!
Data-Driven Techniques for Type Error Diagnosis
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59s4h4pv
