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From: erik@fisher.CSS.GOV (Erik Magnuson)
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Subject: Re: Please explain why this is wrong...
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In article <3i3p2q$j7o@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>norman, error messages are NOT for the purposes of learning fine points
>It is easy, especially for experts in the language, to make the mistake
>of knowing too much in figuring out error messages. It is a tricky business.
>In particular, one has to be very careful not to overuse reference manual
>jargon which is unlikely to be familiar to most Ada programmers.

This comment immediately brings to mind Rational's (first Delta and it's still
in Apex) "co-resident homograph" error message when you have two procedures
with the same parameter profile.  Sometimes I think they leave it in for
the fun of it.