Improving MethodError message for anonymous functions #57319
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This pull request aims to resolve issue #56325
In this example, you get a MethodError for your anonymous method
(::var"#3#4")
:This can be confusing for beginner julia programmers, because in the case of a do block, it might even be non-obvious that you wrote a function. I changed the error message adding the words "anonymous function" and adding a tip for the number of arguments:
Of cousre if the function is not anonymous the error will not say "anonymous function" and if has more than one method will not display the tip:
I have done this by modifying the files
base/errorshow.jl
andtest/errorshow.jl