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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 50658@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50658: Error messages including function names violates coding conventions
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:11:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkFVhSJRUTBY7Jgbo_VLDSOzV16+m8EZD=Ls+mdazi++g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834ka5kzwz.fsf@gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> +Invalid input''.  This convention is better avoided in most cases.
>
> That last sentence is unexpected, and seems to contradict everything
> you wrote before it.  Which convention should be avoided, and why?

To be honest, I was a bit unsure about this sentence.  I guess I'm
trying to say "don't overdo it" or "don't do it by default just because
you can".

But perhaps this is already clear from the rest of the text?





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-18 10:52 bug#50658: Error messages including function names violates coding conventions Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 11:58   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 12:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 12:49       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 13:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-18 14:54   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-18 15:00     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-27 23:25       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28  5:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 12:11           ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-28 12:28             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28 12:59               ` Stefan Kangas

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