Re: Idea: numbered error messages

[David Burgess <dburgess@...>]

> You know, I don't care a whit about size or localisation issues (what is a
> whit, anyway?).

I care about size. Size of code and size of memory used by Lua.
And if you are going to standardize strings, they must be const and not
require any allocation (as pointed out above).
I recall early versions of a well known word processor that when it ran 
out of memory would loop trying to get memory to load the error
message.

DB