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Re:Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014) by kazinator on Monday May 06, 2024 @09:20PM (#40281281)
You can trivially reduce the number of messages to one by bailing on the first error.
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Re:Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (2014) by pvillano on Sunday May 12, 2024 @08:50PM (#40338767)
That makes error driven development difficult. I think a compiler should attempt to emit one error message per human error
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