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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> One other thing that is noticeable from the errors is that most of the\r
+> rest of the errors are very informative but the parse_boolean_term one\r
+> is relatively uninformative: it just says we cannot parse the id even\r
+> though we know rather more about what the error is (trailing text, no\r
+> closing quote, illegal character in an unquoted id etc). I am happy with\r
+> it how it is but perhaps David Bremner might like to comment?\r
+\r
+I don't see a simple way to report better errors without adding more\r
+status values to parse_boolean_term; in the other cases we report the\r
+error as it is detected, in the cli code. I also don't think it's\r
+correct for routines in ./util to directly print error messages.\r
+\r
+d\r