[m-dev.] for review: fixing formatting of HLDS dumps

[Peter Schachte]

On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 07:47:53PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> It would be better, IMHO, to use an error message
> like this:
> 
> 	...
> 	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol `\n /0'.
> 
> (Trying to print out the symbol name in quotes, i.e.
> 
> 	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol `'\n '/0'.
> 
> would be worse, IMHO.)

I think either

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol '\n '/0.

or

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol `\n '/0.

would be much better (but preferably the first).  And for consistency

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol foo/0.

seems perfectly understandable.  Alternatively

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol: foo/0.

might be a little clearer.  In any case

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol `\n /0'.

seems pretty confusing.  What will the user think when the error is a
little different and she reads:

	foo.m:001:   error: undefined symbol `\n /0/0'.

?

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