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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 25 Jun 1997 19:44:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 1997 13:19:13 -0400 (EDT)"
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

>  > 1) how many functions will you log?  currently, only the "good" ones
>  >    are logged, which saves us from remembering a load of unnecessary
>  >    cruft;

> My suggestion is not meant to address a big problem, message
> classification.  Rather it was meant to address a little
> problem, applications being slowing down by regexp matching.

But the question in #1 still stands: how many messages do you propose
to log?

> Labelling the messages is beside the point if the filter
> matching is deferred until the time view-lossage is run.

True.

> But if we're going to move to some message labelling system, we need
> to give it more thought than we've currently given it.

Why?  I cannot find a flaw in the way labeling is currently
implemented (Ben's implementation, I suppose).  Have I missed
something crucial on the way?


P.S.
Oh, except that `display-message' should accept format arguments.

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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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