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Incorporate guidance on long error messages

Open nikomatsakis opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

We have

https://rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/1567-long-error-codes-explanation-normalization.html

which has some conventions for long error codes. This should be in the rustc-guide.

nikomatsakis avatar Apr 15 '19 20:04 nikomatsakis

cc @GuillaumeGomez

nikomatsakis avatar Apr 15 '19 20:04 nikomatsakis

@eddyb wanted to get rid of them and I've heard (for a while now, I'm starting to wonder if it'll ever happen...) that they'd adapt to users' code directly to make them even easier to understand. But I assume it should be in the rustc-guide nevertheless.

cc @rust-lang/docs

GuillaumeGomez avatar Apr 15 '19 21:04 GuillaumeGomez

I think we should definitely incorporate the text for now.

nikomatsakis avatar Apr 16 '19 20:04 nikomatsakis