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How exactly is it needlessly hard? You're going to google what the error message says anyway. Maybe if it's something silly, it'll stick better.



> You're going to google what the error message says anyway

If an error message says:

    syntax error: unexpected {, expecting )
...I don't have to google anything. I know that there is a '{' that shouldn't be there, or that something else is missing before it, done.

If the error message would instead read:

    syntax error: unexpected NAMIKAKKO, expecting MARUKAKKO
...then I would indeed have to google it, unless I just so happened to know the japanese words for "wave bracket" and "round bracket"

My point is: a good message about an error as simple as an unexpected or missing syntactical element can convey all the information I need to fix the problem, without requiring me to invoke a supremely powerful search engine, indexing the largest repository of collective human knowledge in existence, to make sense of it.




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