How to handle compiler error messages

Usually, if you compile a program error messages occur more or less often, depending on your knowledge in coding. We support three phases regarding error messages. We start with the error prevention, error message handling and error message resolving.

Error Message Prevention

Since we are offering a comfortable editing environment, we suggest to use all the power it has.

  • Syntax Highlighting : Use the syntax highlighting to recognise typos in literals, reserved names and given data types.

  • Auto Bracing : Missing braces can cause very strange error messages. Since we always add closing braces and support brace matching we can reduce the number of confusing error messages.

  • Auto Indenting : Together with Auto Bracing you can see if your variables and control structure are in the scope you intended them to be.

Error Message Handling

Syntax Error Visualization : Syntax errors can be shown in both traditional error message view and dressed error message view. Clicking on an error message leads you the appropiate line.

Error Message Resolution

We suggest to start always with the first error message shown in the list. By double clicking in the dressed error message view you may receive MindProd error message explanations which allows to identify the reasons for an error.

You can disable this feature in the preferences .