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shorten expectations list #810

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OmarTawfik opened this issue Feb 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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shorten expectations list #810

OmarTawfik opened this issue Feb 13, 2024 · 0 comments
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OmarTawfik commented Feb 13, 2024

Instead of something like this:

Error: Expected AddressKeyword or AsciiStringLiteral or AssemblyKeyword or BoolKeyword or BreakKeyword or ByteKeyword or CloseBrace or ContinueKeyword or DecimalLiteral or DeleteKeyword or DoKeyword or FalseKeyword or FixedBytesType or ForKeyword or FunctionKeyword or HexLiteral or HexStringLiteral or Identifier or IfKeyword or MappingKeyword or NewKeyword or OpenBrace or OpenBracket or OpenParen or PayableKeyword or ReturnKeyword or SignedFixedType or SignedIntegerType or StringKeyword or ThrowKeyword or TrueKeyword or UnsignedFixedType or UnsignedIntegerType or VarKeyword or WhileKeyword.

We can add a flag (e.g. error_recovery = (override_children_expectations: bool)) to StructItem and EnumItem and other non-terminal items .. When any item fails to parse its children, and only when the error position has made no progress in input stream, we replace the current "expectations list" of children kinds with the current parent kind only, propagating it up the stack. This leads to nicer errors like:

  • Error: Expected Expression or Statement.
  • Error: Expected Modifier or FunctionAttribute.

Open Questions

  • Should this behaviour be enabled by default, and only disabled where needed? which is the better DX here?
  • Do we even need a flag here? can we enable this for all enums for now? does this miss anything?
@OmarTawfik OmarTawfik converted this from a draft issue Feb 13, 2024
@OmarTawfik OmarTawfik assigned OmarTawfik and Xanewok and unassigned OmarTawfik Feb 20, 2024
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@OmarTawfik OmarTawfik self-assigned this May 27, 2024
@OmarTawfik OmarTawfik assigned OmarTawfik and unassigned OmarTawfik Jul 26, 2024
@OmarTawfik OmarTawfik moved this to Todo in Slang - Backlog Nov 19, 2024
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