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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
>>>>> "Fergus" == Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
Fergus> We've discussed this before. The concensus last time (as I
Fergus> understood it) was that alphanumeric message codes where a
Fergus> better alternative to message numbers. Message codes are
Fergus> easier to remember, more self-documenting, and avoid
Fergus> collisions between new warnings added on different CVS
Fergus> branches or in different repositories.
Another advantage of message codes (and to a lesser extent, message
numbers) is that it's much easier to filter warnings that you don't
care about. Emacs' compilation mode, for example, could be modified
to deal with this. It could almost satisfy every request I've heard
for "give me a command line option to silence <x> warning".
Ben