This may be easy, or may be hard :).

If you create a service and specify a bad class name, you'll get an error at runtime (when you use the service) similar to:

PHP Fatal error: Class 'Knp\FooBundle\Security\Voter\CourseVoter' not found in /path/to/project/app/cache/dev/appDevDebugProjectContainer.php on line 3832

To a beginner, theappDevDebugProjectContainer is confusing. I'dlove to say something like:

Class "Knp\FooBundle\Security\Voter\CourseVoter" not found. Check the spelling on the "class" configuration for your "course_voter" service.

This could be easily done in a compiler pass. My concern is side effects :). Is it possible that a class will not be available at compiler time but will be available at run-time? If a compiler class won't work, we'd need to addclass_exists in the compiled code, which would be a bummer.

The advantage is clear, the solution might be harder.