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Really not much different from using a unique "error" number, and certainly easier to communicate without transposition or other unintentional errors: Compare:
by ams6110 9y ago
Really not much different from using a unique "error" number, and certainly easier to communicate without transposition or other unintentional errors:
Compare:
"The program says 'atrocity' and I don't know what I did wrong!"
vs.
"The program says 'error 567231' and I don't know what I did wrong!"
- fusiongyro 9y agoTrue, but atrocity conveys something extra that 567231 does not. Or at least that's what the humans tell me.
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