Identifier not found errors #256
Description
Identifier not found errors
Identifier not found errors, such as for assignment() in statement(), are misleading for identifier types that are not appropriate. This is a consequence of the way searchid() and other functions work. They accept a list of identifier types, such as vars, fixedt, etc. The issue is that if, say, an assignment is made to an inappropriate type like a type, constant or fixed id or similar, it ends up with an "id not found", which is a misleading error.
My idea of a fix is to look at each identifier point use of searchid() and do a better disposition of the error by doing another search on id types that are wrong in context, then give a better error if one of those are found.
Ok, my opinion here
The "search id by class" is one of the weaker methods used in the Pascal-P compiler and comes from the original code.