Re: Translating trace messages

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: 02 Sep 2002 10:07:05 +0200

> | Sorry, I didn't know that --trace was permanently not meant for users.
> | (I thought that you hadn't gotten around to documenting it.   :-)
> 
> Would you document such a thing?  I used this to understand some bits
> of Bison, and I believe it does help developpers, but not users.  If
> there are features in there that can be useful to users, then they
> should migrate into --report.

You were way past me, I'm afraid.  To be honest I didn't even
understand the difference between --trace and --report.

My usual rule of thumb is that if a feature requires natural-language
output, it is a "user" feature and not a "developer" feature.  (This
habit saves the hassle of having to decide which strings to translate.
:-)