Why not just show the out-of-range index?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 7/12/2006 01:17, OKB (not okblacke) wrote:

>         So my conclusion from this is: is there a reason that every error
>message of the form "expected foo" or "this object cannot be frotzed"
>cannot be changed to  something like "expected foo but found bar" or
>"this FooType object cannot be frotzed"?

Some arguments from my head:
- because error messages should be short
- because error messages are not debugging tools (better use unit 
tests to avoid most common errors)
- because it's a lot of work to actually obtain such information in 
each posible case, and sometimes, it may not be posible.
- because none of the core developers has interest on it
- because nobody else cares to submit a patch


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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