Original bug ID: 7338
Reporter: @gasche
Status: confirmed (set by @gasche on 2016-08-30T06:30:10Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: text
Version: undecided
Target version: later
Category: typing
Parent of: #5888 #6173 #7336 #7565 #7574
Monitored by: @Drup @hcarty @dbuenzli

Bug description

The ticket #5068 serves as a parent issue for reports of confusing syntax error messages. This ticket can serve as parent issue for reports of confusing typing error messages.

Additional information

It may not be obvious for beginners to tell whether an error is a type error or syntax error (syntax errors have "Syntax error" in the error message and occur before -dsource output), and some typos at the syntactic level result in typing errors, but experienced users would do the triaging. The reason to separate them is that the ways to fix them, and thus the cost/benefit analysis inherent in any discussion, are very different.