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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Fun with WebAda/GNAT
Date: 1996/08/22
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Date: 1996-08-22T00:00:00+00:00
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Ronald Cole says

"> We have discussed this, but path names in typical Unix systems are so
> long that this generates an unacceptable level of noise in the normal
> case.

If you're willing to toss out clarity and exactness in favor of
aesthetic pleasantness, then so be it.  It's your compiler and your
error messages..."

On the contrary, it does NOT improve clarity at all to give full path
names, but instead obscures the clarity of the messages in the normal
case. Given that you can trivially find out what file is being referenced
in the rare case where you don't immediately know, it seems clear that
it is best NOT to disturb the clarity of ordinary messages.

If you want to experiment with this, it is an obvious one token chanbge
in errout to generate the full file name ...