[records] Confusing compilation error when record components are omitted
Tagir Valeev
amaembo at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 07:26:41 UTC 2019
Hello!
My colleague experiments with records support. He made a fresh build
from amber records branch and wrote this code:
public record Record {
}
Compiler produced the following error message:
error: class, interface, enum, or record expected
public record Record {
^
1 error
It's pretty confusing to see the compiler pointing on the word
'record' and saying that 'record' is expected. The real problem is the
absence of parentheses after the record name. I think such kind of
mistake could be done by many newcomers. Probably a better compilation
error should be displayed in this case?
With best regards,
Tagir Valeev.
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