From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-11-10T00:07:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24761] Re: assert_exception_and_message

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote:

> Is it considered good style to rely on the exception message in
> programs?  I was always under the impression that the messages were
> there mainly for human consumption.

It's probably not a good idea to rely on the exception message, but it's
definitely important to make sure that exception messages are correct
(especially if the message is for human consumption, because a human will
be really confused if he gets an "out of disk space" message when the
network is down).

Paul