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[I7-1468] [Mantis 1504] Joke instead of error message explanation when making a bad declaration. #616

Closed curiousdannii-testing closed 2 years ago

curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

Reported by : garymeadows

Description :

The error message for claiming a number is something other than a number yields "That, sir, is a damnable lie." and no further explanation.

Steps to reproduce :

101 is a room.

Additional information :

I'm reporting this because a friend (and a clever person generally) got this error within her first few minutes of tinkering with Inform; she found this alienating, and it initially left her with the impression that Inform was not appropriate for people without a strong background in programming, since the mistake was treated as too obvious to deserve clarification.

The line is amusing, but it seems like a joke in the place of an error message explanation is going too far; we could just as easily have both.

imported from: [Mantis 1504] Joke instead of error message explanation when making a bad declaration.
  • status: Closed
  • resolution: Resolved
  • resolved: 2022-04-07T04:58:41+10:00
  • imported: 2022/01/10
curiousdannii-testing commented 2 years ago

557058:4c095ffd-6d6f-47ce-9e73-77c613347b86:

Comment by graham :
Oh, very well. I've made this more explicit.