From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:13:39 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9013ab26-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Messages and Codes was notoriously unhelpful in many cases. Sure, but was the problem with the concept or with the implementation? In my particular case, my concern lies largely with system library functions, a finite error message space. In fact, given that a significant portion of the errors are concurrent with 9P, it ought to be trivial to rationalise at least those error messages into a finite set. I'm suggesting that discipline in the use of error messages would be constructive and that one mechanism to encourage such discipline would be the use of indexing. I appreciate that it then becomes difficult to escape the enforced rigidity, but one can add the escape mechanism a priori. I actually fail to see any other disadvantages of a disciplined approach. I do see very clearly where the Plan 9 approach becomes a nightmare. ++L