In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 06/22/2005
at 04:54 PM, "Perryman, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I can see that most of the messages from a compiler would indeed be
>self-documenting and quite rightly so, particularly since the reader
>is probably the programmer and therefore the one that caused the
>error situation to occur.
Perhaps in an ideal universe. Certainly the compiler messages that I
have seen have done a poor job of explaining the location and nature
of the error. They need documentation as much as the run-time messages
do.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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