enso/docs/parser/construct-resolution.md

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Construct Resolution

Construct resolution is the process of turning the low-level AST format into the full high-level AST format that represents both all of Enso's language constructs and contains rich error nodes.

• Syntax Errors

The actionables for this section are:

• Produce a detailed design for this resolution functionality, accounting for all known current use cases.

Syntax Errors

It is very important that Enso is able to provide descriptive and useful syntax errors to its users. Doing so requires that it has a full understanding of the language's syntax, but also that it is designed in such a fashion that it will always succeed, regardless of any errors. Errors must be:

• Highly descriptive, so that it is easy for the runtime to explain to the user what went wrong.
• Highly localised, so that the scope of the error has as minimal an impact on parsing as possible.

The actionables for this section are:

• Determine how to design this parsing phase to obtain very accurate syntax errors.