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Robert J. Simmons edcef51434
feat: improve error messages for invalid field access (#11456)
This PR refines several error error messages, mostly involving invalid
use of field notation, generalized field notation, and numeric
projection. Provides a new error explanation for field notation.

## Error message changes

In general:
- Uses a slightly different convention for expression-type pairs, where
the expression is always given `indentExpr` and the type is given
`inlineExpr` treatment. This is something of a workaround for the fact
that the `Format` type is awkward for embedding possibly-linebreaking
expressions in not-linebreaking text, which may be a separate issue
worth addressing.
- Tries to give slightly more "why" reasoning — the environment does not
contain `String.parse`, and _therefore you can't project `.parse` from a
`String`_.

Some specific examples:

### No such projection function
```lean4
#check "".parse
```
before:
```
error: Invalid field `parse`: The environment does not contain `String.parse`
  ""
has type
  String
```
after:
```
error: Invalid field `parse`: The environment does not contain `String.parse`, so it is not possible to project the field `parse` from an expression
  ""
of type `String`
```

### Type does not have the correct form
```lean4
example (x : α) := (foo x).foo
```
before:
```
error: Invalid field notation: Type is not of the form `C ...` where C is a constant
  foo x
has type
  α
```
after:
```
error: Invalid field notation: Field projection operates on types of the form `C ...` where C is a constant. The expression
  foo x
has type `α` which does not have the necessary form.
```

## Refactoring
Includes some refactoring changes as well:
- factors out multiple uses of number (1, 2, 3, 212, 222) to ordinal
("first", "second", "third", "212th", "222nd") conversion into
Lean.Elab.ErrorUtils
- significant refactoring of `resolveLValAux` in `Lean.Elab.App` — in
place of five helper functions, a special-case function case analysis,
and a case analysis on the projection type and structure, there's now a
single case analysis on the projection type and structure. This allows
several error messages to be more explicit (there were a number of cases
where index projection was being described as field projection in an
error messages) and gave the opportunity to slightly improve positining
for several errors: field *notation* errors should appear on `foo.bar`,
but field *projection* errors should appear only on the `bar` part of
`foo.bar`.
2025-12-02 17:46:12 +00:00
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.github chore: CI: exclude additional slow test (#11440) 2025-12-01 10:53:16 +00:00
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.gitattributes fix: mark doc parser tests as eol=lf (#10344) 2025-09-11 11:19:01 +00:00
.gitignore chore: add .vscode/settings.json to .gitignore (#10795) 2025-10-16 07:08:41 +00:00
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