Proposal: Wiki-based Exception Descriptions

Paul Prescod <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:20:49 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In GUI systems it is common to link error messages to "Help" buttons 
that describe when the error is likely to occur. In batch systems like 
Prothon, it is appropriate to use URLs for this task. I propose that 
Prothon exception messages be of the form:

Type Error, read attempt on a property with no get_ method.
See http://www.prothon.org/errors/no_get_method

This page could be a wiki maintained by the Prothon community. Users 
could even use it to post examples of problems they have and Prothon 
experts could explain why they happened. Over time the page would become 
a pretty definitive explanation of the likely causes for a particular 
error. We can also use the information we collect on the page to subtype 
exceptions and make them more precise.

  Paul Prescod