[Issue 249] New: circular typedef and alias bugs

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:15:40 +1000, Walter Bright  
<newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Perhaps a context ID would be useful?  Could even encode it into the  
>> message ID--set the upper N bits as the message pointer and the lower N  
>> bits as the location.  Still not quite as easy to track down as a  
>> search for an embedded string though, I'll admit.
>
> I find that grepping for the string works without problems.


The commercial code that we write uses message ids because the text of the  
message is locale-dependant. We provide local-language text for each of  
the messages, external to the source code. The message text is not  
embedded in the source.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia