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		mattfenwick on Feb 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to write your own language? What is your approach for generating error messages during parsing?

WalterBright on Feb 6, 2014 [–]

Ad-hoc, with the proviso that error recovery should always consume tokens, so the parser can never get stuck in a loop.

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