myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> skribis: > On 11/10/2017 at 00:04 Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> Thrilled by this idea, I pushed an unbound-variable handler that can >> provide hints, such as: >> >> configuration.scm:88:19: zip: unbound variable >> hint: Try adding `(use-modules (gnu packages compression))'. >> >> Feedback welcome! > > I built and played with this. If I follow some of the hints literally > they lead me astray. Here are some suggested hint rewording.
Again, it’s a hint, it could be wrong. So perhaps that’s a good reason for “Did you mean xyz?”, ending with a question mark (like GCC does), rather than a sentence that looks assertive. In the example above, it may be less confusing if we write: Did you forget (use-modules …)? With the question mark, the user understands that this may or may not be the cause of the error. Thoughts? Ludo’.
