I'd also like to see the standard gnu way.
On Apr 14, 2013 9:26 AM, "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
wrote:

> Le dimanche, 14 avril 2013 à 16:20, William Smith a écrit :
> > Would there be any interest in me making the change everywhere and
> submitting it as a patch?
>
> Not at all...
>
> > One concern I have is that it might break automated test scripts.
>
> That may be the case but more importantly your fancy way of reporting
> error messages is not recognized by emacs' compilation-mode. ocaml's
> current way of reporting allows compilation-mode to perfectly hilight the
> span of the error in your source *without* having to tweak the
> `compilation-error-regexp-alist` variable. That's not the case of your
> format.
>
> If something has to be changed I'd rather have the gnu standard way of
> reporting errors for ranges [1] which is both more compact and recognized
> by emacs' compilation-mode.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Errors
>
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