Re: message ids for warnings and errors

[Paul Kienzle]

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