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Author: cfbolz

posts/2021/12/error-message-style-guides.txt

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 Error Message Style Guides of Various Languages
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-PyPy has been trying to produce good `SyntaxErrors`_ and `other errors`_ for a
-long time, and thankfully CPython has made an enormous push to `improve its
-errors in the last releases`_. These improvements are great but the process
+PyPy has been trying to produce good `SyntaxErrors`_ and `other`_ `errors`_ for
+a long time, and thankfully CPython has made an enormous push to `improve its
+SyntaxErrors in the last releases`_. These improvements are great but the process
 feels somewhat arbitrary sometimes. To see what other languages are doing I
 asked people on Twitter whether they know of error message style guides for
 other programming languages:
 
+.. _`SyntaxErrors`: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/04/improving-syntaxerror-in-pypy-5733639208090522433.html
+.. _`other`: https://twitter.com/cfbolz/status/783313503230844929/photo/1
+.. _`errors`: https://twitter.com/pypyproject/status/999930324481081344
+.. _`improve its SyntaxErrors in the last releases`: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#better-error-messages
+
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     <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Is there any programming language that has a style guide for its error messages? <a href="https://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShriramKMurthi</a>, do I remember correctly that Pyret has one?</p>&mdash; Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick (@cfbolz) <a href="https://twitter.com/cfbolz/status/1466033151315173384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>