Re: gp: gcd(0) error message unhelpful

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Bill Allombert wrote:
> One side remark: the use of err(typer,) force the format of the error
> message. This mildly annoying, because using typer is more
> helpful for trap() users than talker, but that reduces the
> usefulness of the error message.

To some extent. You can still use

  err(typeer, "associative operation (data must be a vector type)")


Only formats (and PARIformats) are forbidden: so you can't do

  err(typeer, "associative operation (data must be a vector type).\nOffending
arg was: %Z", x)

but it would be trivial to support this (in the err() switch, move typeer to
the 'talker & al' case)  [ Caveat: messages containing % would now need
special care ].

Cheers,

    Karim.
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