Well, people who can't read error messages written in english will obviously have a hard time with Pike, since our error messages are written in english. Removing information from the error message, so that the amount of not understood information is less, is good from some theoretical point of view, but I won't vote for it.
/ Martin Nilsson (Åskblod)
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2003-02-10 22:15: Subject: Re: Implicit vs. explicit type casting with Pike
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:10:07PM +0100, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum scribbled:
The error message isn't consistent. The error message speaks both about m_delete() (fine) and _m_delete (not fine) - this is confusing.
That is because it speaks both of _what_ went wrong, and _where_. This is normal, and nothing to be confused by.
Right, right - if one knows where to look for and what to look for. Let's think about newbies again - given that backtrace they will most probably ask "what the hell is _m_delete? I'm not using it, I'm calling m_delete, where is _m_delete documented?" And they will hear "_m_delete() is documented in the documentation for m_delete()" - don't you think that might be a bit confusing?
marek
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