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Re: Confusing error message in development version


From: Patrice Dumas
Subject: Re: Confusing error message in development version
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 21:25:48 +0200

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 11:25:13PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Actually it was probably simply an oversight.  Note that I have kept the
> > function names in other warning messages, as either it is useful to have
> > the function name as the user should have used the function or the
> > message should not actually happen, it is more like a bug.  I am not
> > 100% sure on the second case, but these messages are not supposed to
> > happen in normal cases.
> 
> What about making the message unique? "unknown variable set on command line:
> OPEN_CODE_QUOTE"?

I used "unknown variable from command line: OPEN_CODE_QUOTE".  I am not
an english native speaker, though.  Should I replace with "unknown
variable set on command line"?

-- 
Pat



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