Style guide should define whether or not to use abbreviations in error messages (e.g."can't" vs "can not") #11512

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kud1ing opened this issue Jan 13, 2014 · 4 comments

kud1ing commented Jan 13, 2014

We're using "can't" and "can not" in error messages. I think for consistency we should settle on one.

The style guide https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-style-guide#error-messages-and-warnings should define which one to be used.

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huonw commented Jan 13, 2014

I guess this applies to all abbreviations.

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kud1ing commented Jan 13, 2014

Agreed, i've adjusted the title.

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kud1ing commented Oct 30, 2014

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kud1ing commented Dec 30, 2014

Closed in favor of rust-lang/rust-guidelines#38

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