Numbering compiler error messages?

[Martin Nowak]

On 03/28/2014 09:32 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
>>
>> The quality of error messages is always a problem, but numbers won't
>> fix that. (Been there, done that, too. Numbering doesn't clarify things.)
>
> I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on that point. I've found
> VC++ error numbers invaluable whenever I confront a confusing error.
> There are often examples of what cause the error and how to fix it.

Well, invest the time saved on maintaining numbers to improve the error 
message thus making it less confusing.