[Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't

Frederic Da Vitoria davitofrg at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 12:21:40 CEST 2014


2014-10-17 12:11 GMT+02:00 Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de>:

> On 10/17/2014 11:58 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>
>> contractions like cannot=>can't are discouraged,
>>
>
> IMHO a bad idea. Error messages should be as short as possible (while
> clearly understandable).


In this particular example, "File bla.txt not found" avoids the problem and
is shorter :-)

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Frederic Da Vitoria
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