Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] Check output parameters' value on input
Author Helen Borrie
At 10:53 PM 14/10/2010, you wrote:
>14.10.2010 10:53, Helen Borrie wrote:
>> Oh no it doesn't. While I agree the "invalid handle" is obscure, I can't see how "dirty input handle" improves its lucidity in the slightest.
>
> Ok, suggest your text explaining to a user that variable which he _fed_ to the routine
>contains something while it is expected to be NULL.

Nope, not without knowing which conditions cause the error to be thrown. As long as I remember, this has been a mystery message. "Dirty input handle" won't help a user at all. If users are expected to know what the exception is then someone needs to write a readme, methinks.

Helen