[REBOL] Re: A prototype typechecker
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 8-Nov-2002 10:07
Hi Jan,
I'm thinking of things on the user side. For us, it's a little annoying to
get a "syntax error", but that kind of thing is totally foreign to normal
human beings. When creating dialects, we need to take into account not only
how we handle well formed input, but how we handle malformed input. The more
information we gather during the parse process, the better feedback we can
provide if something isn't right. Since the whole idea of a dialect is to
speak *their* language - whoever "they" might be - I like the idea of
dialected datatypes
(for lack of a better made up term :), which is kind
of what the signature and typeset view gives us.
--Gregg
