[Issue 204] New: Improve error message.

[Bruno Medeiros]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 23:23:49 +1000, Bruno Medeiros 
> <brunodomedeirosATgmail at SPAM.com> wrote:
> 
>> d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=204
>>>             Summary: Improve error message.
>>>            Product: D
>>>            Version: unspecified
>>>           Platform: All
>>>         OS/Version: All
>>>             Status: NEW
>>>           Severity: normal
>>>           Priority: P2
>>>          Component: DMD
>>>         AssignedTo: bugzilla at digitalmars.com
>>>         ReportedBy: dawid.ciezarkiewicz at gmail.com
>>>   map.d(165): cannot create instance of abstract class Droid
>>>  Please add info about method which isn't implemented yet: "because 
>>> XXX is
>>> abstract" or smth. If many - the first one is good enought.
>>>
>>
>> Who else thinks that this is a very badly constructed bug/issue report?
> 
> I didn't. I understood exactly what was being asked for.
> 
> --Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia

It might be the case that you understood it, but it still was very badly 
constructed:

The title/summary:
"Improve error message."
This is clearly an terrible summary, it is awfully generic and 
non-specific (!) . (What error message?)

The description:
The description doesn't mention what causes the error, either with a 
textual explanation or with a code example.
Derek, you understood it because surely you have seen it before, but I 
haven't, and so, if it wasn't for Deewiant example I (and anybody else 
in my situation) would not be able to figure out what the error was 
about at all (!) .

The categorization:
This is not a bug, it is a feature request. So perhaps it should have 
been filed under Severity:"Enhancement".

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D