Numbering compiler error messages?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Matt Soucy"  wrote in message news:lh8nkd$mst$1 at digitalmars.com...

> For starters, having a URL such as http://dlang.org/error/D123 is
> instantly recognizable, so when users see a DXYZ error code before and
> remember that they ended up on http://dlang.org/error/DXYZ, they'll be
> more likely to remember. (I'm looking at you, MSDN pages with
> impossible-to-remember URLs) This way, the user will eventually just
> skip the search engine altogether and just go directly to the error's 
> page.

Building a compiler for people who can't google is like building a race 
track for people who can't drive.