error-messages/Empty-file-error.md

 
-We could improve the error that you get when you try to compile an empty file by adding an example hello world program.
-
-## Error now:
+Currently, if you try to compile an empty file you get:
 
 ```
 Error:
@@ -9,17 +7,84 @@ Error:
 Compilation failed while Loading SAC program, 1 error(s).
 ```
 
-## Error Proposal 
+This error is generated in the parser in the main `parse` function. 
+
+I improved this error by suggesting to add an example hello world program.
 
 ```
 Error:
   No declaration of module, class, or main function given
-Compilation failed while Loading SAC program, 1 error(s).
 
 Every program needs 1 main function. 
 Try a hello world program like this: 
 
 int main() {
 	show("Hello world!");
+	return 0;
 }
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+
+Compilation failed while Loading SAC program, 1 error(s).
+```
+
+# Empty module
+
+If you have this
+
+```
+module Bar;
+
+int bar() { return 0; }
+```
+
+With no functions or no `exported` or `provided` functions you get this:
+
+```
+/tmp/SAC_YgFh4P/filenames.c:3: error: ISO C forbids an empty translation unit [-Werror=pedantic]
+cc1: note: unrecognized command-line option ‘-Wno-use-after-free’ may have been intended to silence earlier diagnostics
+cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
+Abort:
+  System failed to execute shell command
+  /usr/bin/cc -fPIC -D_POS
+```
+
+We should improve this error message to say that the module is empty and that you can not compile empty modules because c does not allow it.
+
+How would you detect that nothing is exported? 
+You could just check if the module has no export and no provides! 
+If there is at least one export or provide then at least it should be a different error message.
+In that case you get:
+
+```sac
+module Bar;
+export {barr}
+```
+
+Symbol 'barr' used in export or provide is not defined.
+
+It would be a bit better if it just knew wether it was an export or a provide and not the or but this is not high priority.
+But lets have a look anyways. ITs done.
+
+```c
+module Recursiveuse;
+
+export  {does,not};
+provide  {exist,here};
+
+/**
+./Recursiveuse.sac:4:17: error:
+  Symbol 'here' used in provide is not defined.
+./Recursiveuse.sac:4:10: error:
+  Symbol 'exist' used in provide is not defined.
+./Recursiveuse.sac:3:15: error:
+  Symbol 'not' used in export is not defined.
+./Recursiveuse.sac:3:9: error:
+  Symbol 'does' used in export is not defined.
+**/
+```
+
+We could improve this further by making one error out of this.
+Undefined symbols in export: {does, not}
+
+Or rephrase it like so `Exported symbol 'here' is not defined anywhere.`
+
+Or [rephrase](./Anthropomorphic-error-essages.md) it like so `I could not find exported symbol 'here' defined anywhere.`