On Jun 25, 12:18 pm, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Some languages go a step further, and highlight syntax errors directly
> with some ASCII art:
>
>   Unmatched delimiter:
>     (let [x map inc nums)]
>                         ^

The javac compiler, for one.

> Though that seems quite tricky to do within the limits of Java's
> exception handling. You couldn't really guarentee your output would be
> to a terminal with a fixed-width font.

The important case is that it work at the REPL, which does use a fixed-
width font. And I'm pretty sure exception detail messages can contain
newlines.
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