Re: Error messages again

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> The "domain" field is roughly equivalent to our class member, so
> converting between the two will be resonably straightforward.  But the
> "code" member has no equivalent. It needs to be a unique number for
> each error message.
>
> I'm not sure how we'd implement that.  One idea would be to  have it
> initialsed whenever the function msg is called: Change msg to a macro,
> and initialise code to a hash of the __FILE__, __LINE__ combination.

What does the "code" member actually get used for?  i.e. is there
a reason we should actually care that it is unique?
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Ben Pfaff 
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