"dev" <dev-boun...@openvswitch.org> wrote on 08/08/2016 11:14:14 AM:
> From: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> > To: dev@openvswitch.org > Cc: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> > Date: 08/08/2016 11:15 AM > Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 03/21] expr: Fine-tune parser error > message for common typo. > Sent by: "dev" <dev-boun...@openvswitch.org> > > It's easy to type "=" in place of "==" in an expression but the expression > parser's error message was far from clear. For multibit numeric fields, > it said: > Explicit `!= 0' is required for inequality test of multibit field > against 0. > For string fields, the parser treated such an expression as "<name> != 0" > and thus it said: > String field <name> is not compatible with numeric constant. > > This improves the error message in each case to: > Syntax error at `=' expecting relational operator. > which I hope to be clear. > > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> > --- I'm pretty much always a sucker for better error messages... Acked-by: Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
