In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/01/2005
at 01:58 AM, Joe Zitzelberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That is because it doesn't change.
Which part of "That certainly didn't use to be true," don't you
understand?
>A "check engine" light is irrelevant if it does not appear on an
>auto dashboard. How can the exact byte location of the error,
>with surrounding source lines for context, be irrelevant to
>resolving the error?
Beczuse the exact co0lumn is not and never was the issue; the issue is
the nature of the error and the failure of the message to adequately
explain it.
>The message includes the row and column of the offending byte. As
>well as a description of its offense.
FSVO "description"; it is one that was unintelligible to the
programmers.
>In what possible way could you consider that 'unintelligible'?
In all the ways that I have already explained. By the empirical
evidence.
>Why doesn't he/she look at what non-displayable data are in the
>text?
I don't know. Why doesn't the message text suggest doing that, and
explain what hexadecimal data are, and how to display them, in terms
understandable to a COBOL programmer?
>They gave you the row and column. They gave you the figurative
>constant name.
That's a lot less helpful than giving the value.
>Turning hex on will give you the value.
The message text doesn't explain how to do that, or even suggest it.
How many COBOL programmers know about hexadecimal display?
>What is left of your request to put into the messages manual?
Essentially everything.
>When did they do this?
I don't know; all that I know is that they used to do so and that you
claim that they no longer 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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