X10 Compiler: Front-end Usability

Usability of the command-line compiler and error messages.

• Lead: Dave Cunningham

• XTENLANG-1625 2010-07-27T13-59 2013-02-12T07-22 Better parser recovery techniques
• XTENLANG-824 2009-12-24T08-41 2011-02-17T08-46 Consider doing type inference on 'catch' clauses
• XTENLANG-1439 2010-06-14T08-59 2013-02-12T07-23 Position of instances/types are the same as the position of the def (and they should be the same as the AST node)

• XTENLANG-1740 2010-08-21T10-20 12/Feb/13 If something cannot work tell us: for example "private abstract def"
• XTENLANG-2011 2010-10-29T10-17 12/Feb/13 Error message when invoking Array constructor with incorrect argument types is confusing
• XTENLANG-1439 2010-06-14T08-59 12/Feb/13 Position of instances/types are the same as the position of the def (and they should be the same as the AST node)

• X10 SVN HEAD  
• X10 2.3.2 Release Date: 31/May/13
• X10 2.4 Release Date: 01/Jun/13
• X10 2.4.1  
• X10 2.5  
• X10 1000