[m-rev.] diff: improve formatting of some error messages

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Peter Moulder wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:52:04PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> > --- compiler/error_util.m	17 Nov 2005 15:57:09 -0000	1.45
> > +++ compiler/error_util.m	27 Feb 2006 01:15:00 -0000
> ...
> > @@ -85,10 +85,13 @@
> >      ;       nl              % Insert a line break if there has been text
> >                              % output since the last line break.
> >
> ... ; ...
> >                              % Act as nl, but also add the given integer
> >                              % (which should be a small positive or negative
> > -                            % integer) to the current indent level.
> > +                            % integer) to the current indent level
> > +
>
> Minor: Removing the full stop is wrong here.
>

Oops!

> > +            words("itself negatively.  This can cause problems for bottom"),
> > +            words("up evaluation of the predicate/function.")
>
> Another minor issue (inherited from the previous code):
> According to a google search for `"bottom up evaluation" logic', it's
> usually written `bottom-up evaluation' (with hyphen) -- which is slightly
> easier to parse.

And a quick grep through the compiler source indicates that we usually
write it that way as well - I'll change it.

Thanks for that.
Julien.
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