From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-12 01:08:08
David Abrahams wrote:
> Gentlemen,
>
> stuff like:
>
> print.wrapped-text "error: multiple base variants are not yet supported" ;
> EXIT ;
>
> Ought to basically never be written. We should use:
>
> errors.error "multiple base variants are not yet supported" ;
>
> instead. Quotes are optional, of course ;-)
I have some reservation about this. For example, if there's gristed element
in sources for some main target, it's an error. If you use "errors.error" to
report this, user will see a looong backtrace, while all it really needs is
the name of offending targets.
- Volodya