[Lazarus] Error messages: cannot versus can't

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:58:21 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dealing with error messages, I remember reading somewhere that
> contractions like cannot=>can't are discouraged, so e.g.
> 
> Can't find file bla.txt.
> 
> should become
> 
> Cannot find file bla.txt
> 
> Have other people seen this? I'd appreciate links to relevant info.

Googling gives lot of pages saying that cannot is more formal than
can't. And MS Word prefers cannot over can not.

This means: It depends on the target audience of your application.

Mattias