From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Dec  7 19:42:19 2005
Subject: Re: message ids for warnings and errors
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Cc: octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers at octave dot org>,         Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:40:47 -0500


On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:24 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> In CVS Octave, we have 21 knobs for warning control:
>
>   warn_assign_as_truth_value
>   warn_function_name_clash
>   warn_neg_dim_as_zero
>   warn_separator_insert
>   warn_variable_switch_label
>   warn_associativity_change
>   warn_future_time_stamp
>   warn_num_to_str
>   warn_single_quote_string
>   warn_divide_by_zero
>   warn_imag_to_real
>   warn_precedence_change
>   warn_str_to_num
>   warn_empty_list_elements
>   warn_matlab_incompatible
>   warn_reload_forces_clear
>   warn_string_concat
>   warn_fortran_indexing
>   warn_missing_semicolon
>   warn_resize_on_range_error
>   warn_undefined_return_values

Few of these names can be guessed from the text of the
warning, but the text of the warning is all that the
user sees.

We could allow something like:

    warning off 'empty list elements'

to suppress the warning message containing the string
'empty list elements'.  Unfortunately this won't work
so well with internationalization.

Any other suggestions?

- Paul