From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Dec  6 16:22:51 2005
Subject: Re: message ids for warnings and errors
From: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 17:21:42 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> I wonder how consistent they are in the usage of these strings. The
> best description I could find is at
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/matlab_prog/ch12_er7.html#prog_message_identifiers
>
> and it doesn't refer to a list of pre-defined identifiers.
>
> My vote goes for the lookup-table, rather than the string translation.

That looks like what I see as well.  These identifiers are written in by 
the coders of the individual functions (you can add one yourself as part 
of your warning).  I would say that the warning types should be added as 
they are found, and I don't think that they are standard.

Bill

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