A line number is harder to hold in your head

When you have 852442 line files, maybe, but I'm perfectly capable of remembering 3 digits for a short time. I'm sure that if you try, you can also do that. Sometimes, but not often, there are 4 digits. Still not at all hard.

If an end user sees the message and tries to remember it to tell you

Error messages are sent to me by email. The one time per week that someone actually calls, they're always reading it off the screen. Perhaps you code for the internetless?

A phrase like "Twinkies and Spandex" is significantly more likely to get to you intact. 

bar.txt: No such file or directory at foo.pl line 15

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versus 
Twinkies and Spandex (No such file or directory)

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Something tells me you're wasting my time.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Style: About error messges opening files by Juerd
in thread Perl Style: About error messges opening files by demerphq

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