Matt Bovel

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icon company EPFL icon location Lausanne, Switzerland icon location PhD student at @lampepfl, working on refinement types for Scala 3. Former intern at @oracle Labs, worked on GraalWasm and Truffle. CS MSc/BSc from EPFL.

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Report a clearer error message for unexpected `final` modifier

~~Note from @dwijnand: `-explain` actually doesn't show anything useful here.~~

Report a clearer error message for unexpected `final` modifier

This issue has been re-purposed to making the error message clearer. Note that this will not be specific to the REPL.

Report a clearer error message for unexpected `final` modifier

This issue was picked for the Scala Issue Spree of today, June 11th. @aherlihy, @mbovel, @bracevac, @EugeneFlesselle will be working on it.

Report a clearer error message for unexpected `final` modifier

Ah, indeed: ```scala ➜ ~/scala-snippets-5 scala-cli run -O -explain finalVal.scala Compiling project (Scala 3.4.1, JVM (17)) [error] ./finalVal.scala:4:9 [error] Expected start of definition [error] [error] Explanation [error] =========== [error] You...