From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: What is a "virtual" group?
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:10:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2boc5gr5e.fsf@surfer-30-3-59.surfnet.iacbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9t1rekl.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:45:30 +0100")
on Tue Dec 25 2012, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi-AT-gnus.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> OK, the message says "Couldn't select virtual nndoc group". But nndoc
>> groups are not today (and according to you, should never be) virtual.
>
> It creates an nnvirtual group over several nndoc groups. Just look a
> few lines up from the error message.
OK, getting back to this old thread...
The phrasing of the message implies the nndoc group itself is virtual,
the same way that "couldn't select that purple paper bag" implies
the paper bag is also purple, not that the paper bag is in another
bag that's purple.
If you changed it to "Couldn't select nndoc group <name> as source for
virtual group <name2>" or some such, it would go from
misleading/confusing to potentially useful. Would that be possible?
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing Software Development Training
http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-15 23:53 Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
2012-09-16 15:08 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-09-16 15:15 ` Adam Sjøgren
2012-09-16 16:52 ` Steinar Bang
2012-12-25 12:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:23 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 20:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 20:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-25 21:32 ` Dave Abrahams
2012-12-25 21:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2013-01-31 18:10 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2013-01-31 18:18 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-01-31 23:18 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-02-20 5:06 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-04-22 8:38 ` Leonidas Tsampros
2013-04-25 13:50 ` Dave Abrahams
2013-04-25 17:48 ` Leonidas Tsampros
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