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+/* NSC -- new Scala compiler
+ * Copyright 2005-2014 LAMP/EPFL, Typesafe Inc.
+ * @author  Adriaan Moors
+ */
+
+package scala
+package reflect
+package internal
+
+trait Reporting { self : Positions =>
+  def inform(msg: String): Unit      = inform(NoPosition, msg)
+  def warning(msg: String): Unit     = warning(NoPosition, msg)
+  // globalError(msg: String) used to abort -- not sure that was a good idea, so I made it more regular
+  // (couldn't find any uses that relied on old behavior)
+  def globalError(msg: String): Unit = globalError(NoPosition, msg)
+
+  def abort(msg: String): Nothing = {
+    val augmented = supplementErrorMessage(msg)
+    // Needs to call error to make sure the compile fails.
+    globalError(augmented)
+    throw new FatalError(augmented)
+  }
+
+  def inform(pos: Position, msg: String)      = Console.out.println(msg)
+  def warning(pos: Position, msg: String)     = Console.err.println(msg)
+  def globalError(pos: Position, msg: String) = Console.err.println(msg)
+
+  def deprecationWarning(pos: Position, msg: String): Unit = warning(msg)
+
+  /** Overridden when we know more about what was happening during a failure. */
+  def supplementErrorMessage(msg: String): String = msg
+}
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