From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-05-14T07:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: detail on a regex?


Please do not top post.

On 13.05.2008 23:32, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Hum.  Yea, but I want the error messages to be helpful for when I'm
> not the one running the program.

Usually I'd make the error message contain a description of the valid 
format in prose or sufficient examples if I feel that users might not 
know this.  An alternative is to dump command line help if there is a 
parameter error.

> And also somewhat unique to the reason the error was thrown, just in
> case I need to track it down and find out there's a logic error on my
> part.

For that you sure have unit tests in place... :-)

Kind regards

	robert