Do we have any guiding principals for error messages?
Specifically the way we write the wording.
It seems we are writing these in the first person from the compilers perspective - using words like I was trying to parse X but couldn't.
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I found Evan's blog article interesting https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans
I'm just wondering if we have anything written down already
Good point, I think @Richard Feldman has looked into the research on error messages
yeah first person is the way to go
we didn't do that with the original error messages, but making them first person is good now that we know it's what we want!
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