Good to know, thanks for the clarification! I appreciate the thorough explanation!
On Monday, June 30, 2025 at 4:47:13 AM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > In addition to Jakob's point, changing error messages is often more work > than we initially think, since dependencies (for V8, most importantly, > Chromium) depend on error messages being a certain string, and require > changes, e.g., updating the tests, when we change error messages. That's > not how the world should be (ideally, nothing should depend on the exact > wording of an error message), but that's how the world is. > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM Ellison Chen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to the community and wanted to just change the spelling of a >> fallthrough error message, seen in this >> <https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/58805>issue in the Node.js repo >> which suggests that the spelling should be corrected upstream, to v8. >> >> I'm looking into changing the spelling of the error messages, however, >> without changing the respective variables from fallthru to fallthrough, it >> would make it more difficult to find the respective errors and/or error >> messages. >> >> I'm thinking it would be necessary that all instances of the term >> "fallthru" should be changed to "fallthrough" in order to resolve this >> issue. >> >> Please let me know any thoughts, thanks! >> >> -- >> > -- >> v8-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "v8-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/de8663d3-6749-4c95-86a7-26a31a5c89ebn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/de8663d3-6749-4c95-86a7-26a31a5c89ebn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > > > Google Germany GmbH > > Erika-Mann-Straße 33 > > 80636 München > > Geschäftsführer: Paul Manicle, Liana Sebastian. > > Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg > > Diese E-Mail ist vertraulich. Falls sie diese fälschlicherweise erhalten > haben sollten, leiten Sie diese bitte nicht an jemand anderes weiter, > löschen Sie alle Kopien und Anhänge davon und lassen Sie mich bitte wissen, > dass die E-Mail an die falsche Person gesendet wurde. > > > > This e-mail is confidential. If you received this communication by > mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies > and attachments, and please let me know that it has gone to the wrong > person. > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/v8-dev/6ce33bca-6b0a-49b8-a1e5-c5d76d3e233cn%40googlegroups.com.
