lebedev.ri added a comment.

In D59214#1926978 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59214#1926978>, @sammccall wrote:

> In D59214#1919183 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59214#1919183>, @lebedev.ri 
> wrote:
>
> > d5edcb90643104d6911da5c0ff44c4f33fff992f 
> > <https://reviews.llvm.org/rGd5edcb90643104d6911da5c0ff44c4f33fff992f>, 
> > looking forward to seeing better error recovery.
>
>
> Thanks very much for your help Roman, I'm also sorry this has been difficult.
>
> The plan for error recovery is to add a RecoveryExpr to the AST that can 
> represent the known structure of an invalid expression (e.g. a function call 
> with no viable overloads - this has subexpressions and possibly a known type) 
> instead of dropping it as we do today. This will be used to improve 
> diagnostics and also expose a more meaningful AST to tools.
>
> A "transitive-has-errors" bit on Expr is needed as various places currently 
> assume that if an Expr exists, the code is valid. (TypoExpr is a complicated 
> special snowflake, and we should also be able to reduce the number of places 
> that special-case it).


Yep, sounds reasonable, thank you for the explanation; that does match my 
expectations
as i was paying //some// attention to the previous related discussions.


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