Re: Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

[Mike McCarty <Mike McCarty sbcglobal net>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> My favorite came from an old AT&T SysVr3 box.  It was:
> "Error: should not happen".

I believe the standard wording was

"Error: cannot happen"

That is standard wording for "I have a switch/chase/multiple selection
statement, and all legal values of the selection argument are accounted
for, but for completenes and so the program will do something realistic
in all situations, I included a default case which displays this
message, and takes some appropriate action."

Mike
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