On Mon, 4 Oct 2021, Jack Hill wrote:

> Wow, thanks for picking up on an annoyance I mentioned on IRC an providing a 
> patch!
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Maxime Devos wrote:
>
>> * guix/records.scm (report-invalid-field-specifier): If
>>  'weird' is something like (field (record ...) extra ...), hint that 'extra
>>  ...' should probably be moved inside (record ...).
>> ---
>
> I don't have any comments on the code directly, but while the error message 
> is much improved, and would have helped me find my mistake quicker, it's 
> still a bit verbose and doesn't seem to be printing your nice error message.

I did perturb the package definition in different ways and got your error 
message

```
error: field ¡uri¢ should only have one value, but an extra value ¡(sha256 (base32 0idhpvafy0gy3bdvw98q974wdv2x6vld2sv1f95ssl4l226cdqs4))¢ was passed as well.  Perhaps this extra value was supposed to be a field specifier, and needs to be moved inside the record ¡(git-reference (url https://github.com/mvz/email-outlook-message-perl) (commit dd382f47fd112032bf91cb673178a27142d23e38))¢?
hint: (uri (git-reference (url "https://github.com/mvz/email-outlook-message-perl") (commit
"dd382f47fd112032bf91cb673178a27142d23e38") (sha256 (base32
"0idhpvafy0gy3bdvw98q974wdv2x6vld2sv1f95ssl4l226cdqs4")) (file-name (git-file-name
name version))))
```

with

```
(define-public msgconvert
   (package
     (name "msgconvert")
     (version "0.920")
     (source
      (origin
        (method git-fetch)
        (uri
         (git-reference
          (url "https://github.com/mvz/email-outlook-message-perl")
          (commit "dd382f47fd112032bf91cb673178a27142d23e38" ;; (string-append "v" version)
))
         (sha256
          (base32 "0idhpvafy0gy3bdvw98q974wdv2x6vld2sv1f95ssl4l226cdqs4"))
         (file-name (git-file-name name version)))))
     (build-system perl-build-system)
     (native-inputs
      `(("perl-module-build" ,perl-module-build)))
     (inputs
      `(("perl-email-address" ,perl-email-address)
        ("perl-email-mime" ,perl-email-mime)
        ("perl-email-mime-contenttype" ,perl-email-mime-contenttype)
        ("perl-email-sender" ,perl-email-sender)
        ("perl-email-simple" ,perl-email-simple)
        ("perl-io-all" ,perl-io-all)
        ("perl-io-string" ,perl-io-string)
        ("perl-ole-storage-lite" ,perl-ole-storage-lite)))
     (home-page "https://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv")
     (synopsis "Foo")
     (description "Foo.")
     (license license:gpl1+)))
```

Best,
Jack