[m-rev.] for review: printing error messages in order

[Paul Bone]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 03:29:38PM +1000, Ralph Becket wrote:
> Paul Bone, Tuesday,  4 August 2009:
> > 
> > I'm not sure context-order is always the best order for error messages.
> 
> I agree with the points you make, except for this one.  I've often
> wished error messages were in line-number order.  At present it seems
> rather random where a given message appears in .err.
> 

Ah,  Perhaps I wasn't clear.  Appart from the problems I mentioned, I'm very
happy for errors to be in context-order.  It makes the most sense when errors
arn't related.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 489 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.mercurylang.org/archives/reviews/attachments/20090804/24b5bc41/attachment.sig>