Improve error messages with 'using _'

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/check_stmt.cpp b/src/check_stmt.cpp
index 630182273..9cacb4a35 100644
--- a/src/check_stmt.cpp
+++ b/src/check_stmt.cpp
@@ -584,7 +584,11 @@ void check_label(CheckerContext *ctx, Ast *label, Ast *parent) {
 // Returns 'true' for 'continue', 'false' for 'return'
 bool check_using_stmt_entity(CheckerContext *ctx, AstUsingStmt *us, Ast *expr, bool is_selector, Entity *e) {
 	if (e == nullptr) {
-		error(us->token, "'using' applied to an unknown entity");
+		if (is_blank_ident(expr)) {
+			error(us->token, "'using' in a statement is not allowed with the blank identifier '_'");
+		} else {
+			error(us->token, "'using' applied to an unknown entity");
+		}
 		return true;
 	}