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FYI: Remove double negation error messages.
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
FYI: Remove double negation error messages. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:45:17 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
* Jesper Louis Andersen wrote on Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:56:33PM CET:
> Quoting Ralf Wildenhues (address@hidden):
>
> > How about this patch (against HEAD, other branches similarly)?
>
> I have no problems about the patch. I would have preferred a separate
> function to predicate if a number was positive (it is after all used a
> number of places in the code), but how to crank this out of sh(1) so it
> is portable is beyond me at the moment (eating a character at a time and
> checking it seems reasonable, but it might be slow).
>
> I do like the idea of warning the user that it is not the whole space of
> positive numbers there are legal values. But we can come to a compromise,
> where the double-negation has been killed. This was after all the worst
> part of the error message.
OK. I've applied my wording (without the `small') to all branches.
Regards,
Ralf