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Re: new parser: error recovery needs work
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
> On 17-Jan-2003, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> 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?
>
> Not really. The message code is a name for the message.
> Usually it should be a lot shorter than the message.
> Unlike the message, it does not contain any varying parts.
You know, I really liked the idea of matching warning message text
against a set of user-specified regular expressions and suppressing
them if they matched. Didn't someone have a demonstration patch for
that?
zw