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Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/astmsgs.nim')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/astmsgs.nim | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/astmsgs.nim b/compiler/astmsgs.nim index d9105b761..a9027126a 100644 --- a/compiler/astmsgs.nim +++ b/compiler/astmsgs.nim @@ -26,3 +26,14 @@ proc addDeclaredLoc*(result: var string, conf: ConfigRef; typ: PType) = proc addDeclaredLocMaybe*(result: var string, conf: ConfigRef; typ: PType) = if optDeclaredLocs in conf.globalOptions: addDeclaredLoc(result, conf, typ) + +template quoteExpr*(a: string): untyped = + ## can be used for quoting expressions in error msgs. + "'" & a & "'" + +proc genFieldDefect*(conf: ConfigRef, field: string, disc: PSym): string = + let obj = disc.owner.name.s # `types.typeToString` might be better, eg for generics + result = "field '$#' is not accessible for type '$#'" % [field, obj] + if optDeclaredLocs in conf.globalOptions: + result.add " [discriminant declared in $#]" % toFileLineCol(conf, disc.info) + result.add " using '$# = " % disc.name.s |