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Re:Plans for OCaml 4.08 by WallWextra on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:46PM (#17458180)
As the blog post says: "Error: Syntax Error".

Helpful error messages have not been my experience.

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Re:Plans for OCaml 4.08 by a0 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:47PM (#17459379)
Syntax errors are suboptimal. They are usually reported at correct location and it's relatively easy to spot them.

On the other hand type error messages are simply awesome.

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