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> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:14:18 -0500, "Rhino"
> <no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly
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> export the code and compile with Jikes or Javac. You might get better
> quality error messages .Eclipse's are hopeless.
He didn't say he is using Eclipse; he doesn't mention the name of an IDE at
all. I just inferred that he is using one because he talks about compiling
by pressing F3; if he were using the command line, he wouldn't compile by
pressing F3.
As for Eclipse's compile messages, I'm not sure why you are so negative
about them. I've been using Eclipse happily for a few years now and find
their messages quite good. Once in a while you get a slightly cryptic one
but no compiler is perfect. I used Jikes briefly a long time ago and have
also used javac but I didn't find either of them dramatically better than
Eclipse. Just my two cents worth, of course, other people's mileage may
vary....
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Rhino
Oliver Wong - 16 Feb 2006 16:06 GMT
> if he were using the command line, he wouldn't compile by pressing F3.
You'd be surprise by some of the expectations people may have about a
computer's desired behaviour.
- Oliver
Roedy Green - 17 Feb 2006 05:02 GMT
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:22:16 -0500, "Rhino"
<no.offline.contact.please@nospam.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly
quoted someone who said :
>As for Eclipse's compile messages, I'm not sure why you are so negative
>about them. I've been using Eclipse happily for a few years now and find
>their messages quite good.
put in this way. Jikes has the best, then Javac with Eclipse next.
Almost never to I understand the Eclipse error message, BUT I do
understand where it is pointing and that the error just appeared, so
it must have something to do with recent keystrokes.
Eclipse goes insane if you unbalance () or {} with an avalanche of
meaningless and distracting error messages. Further it refuses to
reformat to help find the error until you have corrected it.

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