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Diffstat (limited to 'compiler/semcall.nim')
| -rw-r--r-- | compiler/semcall.nim | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/semcall.nim b/compiler/semcall.nim index 7e0ea5490..3723d3fc1 100644 --- a/compiler/semcall.nim +++ b/compiler/semcall.nim @@ -287,7 +287,18 @@ proc getMsgDiagnostic(c: PContext, flags: TExprFlags, n, f: PNode): string = let ident = considerQuotedIdent(c, f, n).s if nfDotField in n.flags and nfExplicitCall notin n.flags: - result = errUndeclaredField % ident & result + let sym = n.sons[1].typ.sym + var typeHint = "" + if sym == nil: + # Perhaps we're in a `compiles(foo.bar)` expression, or + # in a concept, eg: + # ExplainedConcept {.explain.} = concept x + # x.foo is int + # We coudl use: `(c.config $ n.sons[1].info)` to get more context. + discard + else: + typeHint = " for type " & getProcHeader(c.config, sym) + result = errUndeclaredField % ident & typeHint & " " & result else: if result.len == 0: result = errUndeclaredRoutine % ident else: result = errBadRoutine % [ident, result] |