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Re: [C/C++] PR 13358 long long and C++ do not mix well
Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> If one changes a message and there are not testsuite changes, then one
> cannot know whether this message is actually ever tested.
That's clearly true, at some level, but I just think it's overly
pedantic. It's not like messages change by themselves. :-) In other
words, I think there's something qualitatively different between a
language feature (where a change to some other part of the compiler
might accidentally break it) and a change to an error message, which is
generally being done very consciously.
I just feel that the benefits of avoiding the potential error message
breakage are outweighed by the costs. Since it's a tradeoff, reasonable
people can certainly disagree. I'd like to see us aim for a middle
ground where we have enough text to capture key concepts, but not the
entire message.
Thanks,
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Mark Mitchell
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