From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Improving error messages Date: 23 Mar 2003 21:33:52 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <874r5tkekv.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: <20030302130105.GC422@gmx.de> <87vfyfjfyb.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <20030323130445.GA315@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048451710 26159 80.91.224.249 (23 Mar 2003 20:35:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 20:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 23 21:35:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18xCBQ-0006nl-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:35:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xCAn-0003a1-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:34:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xCAL-0002o3-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:34:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xCA9-0002Qp-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:33:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.dokom.net ([195.253.8.218]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18xCA8-0002Iy-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 15:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway43.dip248.dokom.de ([195.138.43.248] helo=zagadka.ping.de) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #3) id 18xCAo-0000Tt-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:34:30 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 10065 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Mar 2003 20:33:52 -0000 Original-To: Wolfgang Jaehrling In-Reply-To: <20030323130445.GA315@gmx.de> Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2104 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2104 Wolfgang Jaehrling writes: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 08:48:12PM +0100, Marius Vollmer wrote: > > Yes, very much! And even more, we don't need to keep all these > > scm_s_expression constants. They only remove the message text from > > the point where the message is issued. That's a minor nuisance, I'd > > say. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I like the idea, but the constants are > also declared in eval.h like this: > > SCM_API const char scm_s_expression[]; > > So it seems to me like they are part of the API. Arghh! Ok, we need to deprecate them first, but we don't need to use them in eval.c itself. > (However, if it ever becomes feasable to internationalize Guile to > provide error messages in the native language of the user, this > aspect of the API would most likely have to be changed anyway in one > way or another.) I guess the string constants are in the API by accident only. You can't do anything sensible with them. > > (I s'pose there is no problem getting "the papers" from you, right?) > > If I have a working and complete patch and you say that you like it, > I'll have to contact assign@gnu.org, right? No, you will be contacted with detailed instructions. Don't call us, we call you! :-) -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel