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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

STOP DOING C++

  • Templates were not supposed to make your error messages explode into unrecognizable gibberish
  • "Yes, please generate 5000 pages of garbage instead of an understandable error message!" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Look at what compilers have been demanding your respect for all this time:

???

They have played us for absolute fools.

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you can't understand that error message then I don't know what to tell you.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Where in that wall of text was it?

[–] Buttons@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't know. That's what I was saying. I can't possibly imagine what I could say to help someone understand that error message.

😉

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 2 days ago

The wall of text was the error message.

I just prefer using the parsed outputs from IDEs which also take you to the line of code on click.