2 Jun
2021
2 Jun
'21
6:46 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 03:40:57PM -0700, Alec Theriault wrote:
Rust has taken an interesting approach for this: every error message is given a unique number like "E0119"
Is there a particularly strong reason to use numbers as codes when we have the entire space human-readable strings available to us? Even the subset of case-insensitive strings formed from alphanumeric characters plus underscore seems more suitable for the encoding than positive integers. e.g. "conflicting_trait_implementations" seems better than "E0119" Tom