Re: Error message formatting (was Re: wavread problems)

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-May-2005, Keith Goodman wrote:

| On 5/11/05, Quentin Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
| > Perhaps yet another builtin variable (short_error_report_format
| > or something like that) is in order?
| 
| If you're into that whole brevity thing:
| 
| ERROR: `fidy' undefined
| Ln  86, Col 13 of /big/long/directory/path/myfunction.m
| Ln  26, Col 12 of /somewhat/shorter/path/slick.m
| Ln 113, Col 14 of /random/matrix/theory/rmt.m
| Ln  17, Col 14 of /octave/money/back/gaurantee/fx.m

I think it would be better to use something like

  /big/long/directory/path/myfunction.m:86:13: error: ...

but this would not be so easy to do given the way error handling is
currently implemented.

jwe



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