[FIX][3.6b] RevertExceptionDescription-ab
Doug Way
dway at riskmetrics.com
Fri Aug 22 18:38:44 UTC 2003
Avi Bryant wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Julian Fitzell wrote:
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>>>>How about "MessageNotUnderstood: someSelector (SomeClass)"?
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>>>I think I slightly prefer "SomeClass MessageNotUnderstood:
>>>someSelector". But I like Julian's suggestion too. Somebody pick one! ;-)
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>>I like Doug's! It seems good to have MessageNotUnderstood in there
>>since people recognize that. But having the class after the method
>>feels odd.
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>Well, then how about "MessageNotUnderstood: SomeClass>>someSelector"?
>That's a little more "standard".
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This sounds good to me. I was thinking of this earlier as another
alternative, and it sounds like it wouldn't require changing the way
#messageText and #description work, as you say.
- Doug
>The problem with doing anything that's not in the form
>"MessageNotUnderstood: %s" is that currently (in 3.5, and in 3.6 with my
>FIX) that text comes from two places: MessageNotUnderstood>>messageText
>(which returns the name of the selector) and Exception>>description (which
>provides the "MessageNotUnderstood: " part). So having
>MessageNotUnderstood in the middle of the description doesn't make sense.
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