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 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
