On 3/31/2014 12:47 AM, Andrea Fontana wrote:
I disagree here.
1) If you want to google for error, you have to strip extra info (line, symbols,
etc)
Copy-paste with a mouse. The same thing you'd do for a message id number.
2) It happens that you search for an error and you find error from another
compiler.
I explained to bearophile in this thread how to do site-specific searches with
google.
3) Error messages can be wrong or not well-written (they can contains typos). If
you change their description to make them clear you have to change the pattern.
And if you want to change the format of error messages (let's say: add
line/column/demangling symbols/giving hints/...) you'll probably brake ide
parsers. It's quite different if IDE just needs to read the first word of line
or first match "DPL[0-9]{5}".
Come on, this is not rocket science.
4) Don't know if this is a case, but two errors can have similar descriptions
and googling for an error could drive user to the wrong one
Yes, and you can mistype the message number, too.
5) Why a central map "string code" => "error message" should be harder to
mantain than a lot of messages putted around the source code?
Because not having a map is easier to maintain than having one.
