Subject: Seeking areas of little or weak documentation
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:30:54 -0400
On 3/23/11 11:25 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 3/20/11, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> I also have periodically suggested that an alphabetized listing of error
>> messages and what they mean would be a service.
> I dunno. I'm not convinced it's worth the trouble.
> "What it means" isn't well-defined in general.
>
> There are practical problems too. Every time a message
> is created, modified, or removed, the list has to be updated.
> And I suppose all translations of it as well.
I agree. But, if the error message itself is not clear, then it is
definitely worth the effort to fix the message to make it clearer.
Ray