* mark reinhold: > 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.
Thank you for confirming my observation. Would it make sense to have these rules documented somewhere?
