Stream: Beginner Questions

Topic: "house" character - what's the meaning?


view this post on Zulip hmijail (May 12 2025 at 13:19):

I get error messages like

Outer syntax error⌂: keyword "infix" expected,
but natural number 256⌂ was found

See those ⌂ in there? (unicode character 8962, representing a house). They seem to only happen in error messages. I thought maybe they were some broken newline, but doesn't seem like. And I couldn't find them mentioned anywhere.

So, any idea of what do they mean?

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (May 12 2025 at 13:23):

you can control-click on them. They bring you to the error location.

view this post on Zulip Fabian Huch (May 14 2025 at 10:22):

It's the error's home ;)

view this post on Zulip hmijail (May 14 2025 at 11:38):

Thank you lots! This sounds like something useful and basic, and yet the couple of well-experienced users I asked didn't know about it. So... any idea of where is this explained? I wonder what else am I missing.

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (May 14 2025 at 11:51):

The symbol is relatively new (a few years already, but still not that many…)

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (May 14 2025 at 11:52):

Half of the new stuff I get by control-click on things…


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