On 13 April 2012 10:46, Gabriel Dos Reis <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez > <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But I don't want to turn the diagnostics machinery upside down and >> implement a "diagnostics internal language" > > I do think an internal formatting IL/IR for better representation is > needed for the > kind of things you would like to (e.g. colors) to keep things manageable. > That isn't turning things upside down, and it isn't helpful to view > it that way.
I am not opposed to having a diagnostics IL/IR, so you or anyone else should feel free to start working on it. But after the XML diagnostics experiment, I personally don't find it interesting enough to work on it (specially to start such a project on my own). As a means to get color output, it would be significantly more code, more invasive change, require more time and effort and produce potentially more bugs than the implementation of colors I am proposing above. So I'd rather work on the latter, even if it is much more limited and less flexible than a diagnostics IL. Cheers, Manuel. > > -- Gaby
