On 03/29/2014 02:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 3/29/2014 10:12 AM, froglegs wrote: >> Having the error number is very >> useful for googling(yes the complete message will give you hits, >> but the # is more concise and turns up more hits), > > More hits? How is that possible? > > > For starters, having a URL such as http://dlang.org/error/D123 is instantly recognizable, so when users see a DXYZ error code before and remember that they ended up on http://dlang.org/error/DXYZ, they'll be more likely to remember. (I'm looking at you, MSDN pages with impossible-to-remember URLs) This way, the user will eventually just skip the search engine altogether and just go directly to the error's page.
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