I prefer to have the information. It's pretty easy to specify nothing more than 
the exception text which is hard to grep for.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Conway [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:46 AM
> To: dev
> Subject: [C++] Getting rid of file:line in QPID_MSG
> 
> There's a convenience macro QPID_MSG in qpid/cpp/src/qpid/Msg.h that is
> used to format exception messages all over the place.
> 
> The current implementation includes the "filename:line" source location
> where the macro is used.
> 
> I propose to take the filename:line out. It is not necessary for developers
> (you can  find the source of a message by grepping for the message text) and
> it adds a lot of useless non-information to messages that are read by users. 
> It
> was my misguided self who put it in there long ago, if anyone thinks it is 
> really
> useful please shout now and we'll argue about it, else I'll excise it. 
> Silence =
> consent.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan.
> 
> 
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