Re: Improving warning output

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:28:08AM -0400, Igor Schein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is an example I'll be talking about:
> 
> ? thue(thueinit(x^7-401),88);
> *** thue: Warning: Non trivial conditional class group.
> *** The result returned by 'thue' is conditional on the GRH.

For that particular instance, the interface is wrong: whether the result
is conditional or not should be part of the output (or the input), not printed
to the screen. 

> 1) To improve grep-ability of the output, I would strongly consider
> including the tag "Warning" in all warning lines, not just the first one, if
> they *must* be split.  In this particular example, I would think they can be
> squeezed into 1 line, though I would like  a confirmation from the core
> PARI/GP developers.

If user need to grep for warning, I think we have already lost.

> 2) If the same output file contains another warning line, say " *** bnfinit:
> Warning: insufficient precision for fundamental units, not given.", then
> warning tags wouldn't be aligned vertically, because of length difference
> between words thue and bnfinit.  I would tentatively consider putting tag
> "Warning" before the function name, to improve visual presentation.

The current state of affair is a side effect of a change to add function name
before error message, not something that was really intended.

Cheers,
Bill.