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From: Tom Schneider
Subject: gpc-20030209 (capitalization error)
Date: 18 Feb 2003, 00:52:54

Frank:

> > Capitalization of definition <original> does not match <current>.
> 
> "Definition" is generally not correct, since it can also be an
> applied occurrence of an identifier.

Thanks, I suspected that wasn't the right term!

> I'd prefer to have it in two lines, so the file names/line numbers
> can refer to both points of usage. But breaking a sentence in such a
> way, with a (generally) different line number in between, might be
> confusing. So I'd then suggest something like:
> 
> foo.pas:42: capitalization of identifier <current> does not match previous one
> foo.pas:17: previous capitalization <original>
>
> or
> 
> foo.pas:42: msimatched capitalization of identifier <current>
> foo.pas:17: previous capitalization <original>

1.
              mismatched :-)

2.  I find this use of the term 'mismatched' to be confusing.  Line 42
does not stand by itself.  Mismatched to what?  Oh, that.  It doesn't
flow in logical order.

3.  It's a bit confusing if you read it rapidly in one go and think
it is one sentence.

So I think the other example is better:

> foo.pas:42: capitalization of identifier <current> does not match previous one
> foo.pas:17: previous capitalization <original>

A tiny bit of punctuation would help:

foo.pas:42: Capitalization of identifier "<current>" doesn't match original one.
foo.pas:17: The original capitalization is "<original>".

Note that I substituted 'original' throughout for clarity.  (Surely
you don't mean the *previous* one - the one that just preceeded?  In
that case it would yell for the third item in this series:   Knifefish
... KnifeFish ... Knifefish.  I would think it should only object to
the second one.)

Ok, now to tighten the screws and make is it shorter:

foo.pas:42: Identifier "<current>" capitalization doesn't match original.
foo.pas:17: The original capitalization is "<original>".

so:

foo.pas:42: Identifier "KnifeFish" capitalization doesn't match original.
foo.pas:17: The original capitalization is "Knifefish".

:-)

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
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