| e.g. "conflicting_trait_implementations" seems better than "E0119"
I don't think so. If the compiler prints "E0119" and I search for that, I know I'm going to get exactly that, not similar but subtly different things. (A free text search might also throw up illuminating info, but is much less precise.)
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Tom Ellis
| Sent: 02 June 2021 11:46
| To: ghc-devs@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: value of documenting error messages?
|
| 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
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