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by lolcraft 5951 days ago
Why not make it easier if you can? Vagueness is hardly a virtue for a programming tool. Also, I don't think the ladies are impressed by your cryptic error fixing skills ;)

What this feature needs now is code correction on the fly. Any error reporter smart enough to ask "did you mean 'x'?" should allow me to answer "yes", and write the changes to the file. That would sell clang to a lot of people.

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there's a command-line option to do just that
What this feature needs now is code correction on the fly

integration with an IDE or vim/emacs + incremental compilation ==> smart error messages and corrections 'on the fly' while you're typing! sort of like how Eclipse gives you sqiggly line warnings almost instantaneously after you finish coding a line