On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:32:28AM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> >Is it possible to catch
> >the exception and have darcs print something nicer, like "Either
> >your repo or your computer is too old, troglodyte!"?
> 
> I used to work with human computer interaction researchers and we  
> would have been throttled for suggesting such an error message.  I  
> like it though.  Humor is good for people :)

Well, I wasn't too serious about that message actually being
adopted. :-)  Humor, especially offensive one, can cause
problems across cultural differences.

>                                               It's like when the  
> printer is on fire:
> http://www.eeggs.com/items/1037.html

One of my favorites too.


-- 
Tommy Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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