From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Dec  6 16:30:11 2005
Subject: Re: message ids for warnings and errors
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Hauberg <soren at hauberg dot org>
To: Bill Denney <denney at seas dot upenn dot edu>
Cc: maintainers at octave dot org
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 23:28:57 +0100

tir, 06 12 2005 kl. 17:21 -0500, skrev Bill Denney:
> 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.
Some can be found by typing

warning query all

in the matlab prompt. Although this will only give you the warnings with
preset defaults.

/Søren 

> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Warning label at MIT's Junior Lab:
> "WARNING: Do not look into laser with remaining eye"
>    -- /usr/bin/fortune
How appropriate :-)