Re: new parser: error recovery needs work

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Neil Booth wrote:

> Fergus Henderson wrote:-
>
>
> > We've discussed this before.  The concensus last time (as I understood it)
> > was that alphanumeric message codes where a better alternative to message
> > numbers.  Message codes are easier to remember, more self-documenting,
> > and avoid collisions between new warnings added on different CVS branches
> > or in different repositories.
> I take it the idea is that the message code is similar to the text?
>
> Then how do we handle internationalization, where users in a different
> language have never even seen, let alone understand, the English form of
> the message?
My theory is to have the names be basically the same as what the
-Wxxx options use now, so for -Wmissing-prototypes, "missing-prototypes"
is the name of the warning, and would be available for attributes and
pragmas just as for command-line options.  The names are orthogonal to
localization, they're just arbitrary strings.

Although perhaps to be more politically correct, we should borrow
from various languages for names.  How about -Wabwesende-Urbilder? :-)

Stan