2019/3/25 5:24:37 -0700, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de>: > Are there any guidelines for formatting exception messages? > > In particular, I'm interested in the case when the exception message > is a (clipped) sentence. Is it supposed to start with a capital > letter? > > If the message refers to a parameter name, the spelling should reflect > the name exactly, of course. There seems to be a slight bias towards > capitalization, based on a few greps. ...
The first word of any exception message in code that I’ve written, or reviewed, is always capitalized unless that word conveys case-sensitive technical information (e.g., a parameter name, as you mentioned). This improves readability, especially in longer exception messages that contain additional punctuation characters. - Mark
