Numbering compiler error messages?

[Walter Bright]

On 3/29/2014 11:02 AM, Brad Anderson wrote:
> For example, in VC++ if you get "C2001 newline in constant" you
> can just lookup C2001
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4x3c2e37.aspx

Or you could look up "newline in constant".

My point is there's nothing magical about using a number instead. It simply does 
not enable new features that aren't already there.