Numbering compiler error messages?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Mar 28 11:07:43 PDT 2014


On 3/28/2014 2:09 AM, bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
>
>> I've done this before. Short answer, it's a pain and doesn't really help.
>
> Since last time we have discussed this topic I have a better answer:
>
> It's a psychological thing: numbering things push people to count them and write
> down a piece of information (like a wiki page) for each number. Currently there
> is no complete dictionary of D errors/warnings/dips. This advantage alone seems
> enough to me to justify numbering them.

As I've said, I've done this before. Those lists get just as out of date and 
unmaintained whether they are numbered or not.



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