JGWeissman comments on Learned Blankness - Less Wrong

130 Post author: AnnaSalamon 18 April 2011 06:55PM

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 19 April 2011 07:38:33PM 2 points [-]

Sometimes my critical contribution to helping another programmer solve a problem basically consists of reading the fascinating error message.

If you can figure out the problem from a syntax error message with C++ templates, your contribution is certainly far from trivial!

Comment author: JGWeissman 19 April 2011 07:50:06PM 4 points [-]

If you can figure out the problem from a syntax error message with C++ templates, your contribution is certainly far from trivial!

I'm sure that is true, but the error messages I am talking about are ones I designed to contain all the information needed to fix the problem.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 31 December 2011 07:34:09AM 0 points [-]

Writing seriously verbose exception text for every single exception thrown may be annoying and space-taking, but after all the crazy things I've seen, I wouldn't do without it. Include what you were expecting, what you encountered, and where you are.

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