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Efe, K., "A proposed solution to the problem of levels in error-message generation ", Communications of the ACM, 30, 11, November 1987, pp. 948-955. Google
949 ;;Quote: low level error messages are inappropriate or vacuous unless the user's intention is known
949 ;;Quote: a system can generate errors at highest level of intention and let users explore error/history/state to whatever depth desired
950 ;;Quote: an error message is designed for the caller of that operation but not for callers of caller
952 ;;Quote: implement error messages as an invocation tree of error messages and callers with the last one returned
952 ;;Quote: error message template: I cannot , because
952 ;;Quote: explore invocation tree on error by reporting operation name and error within context of operation
952 ;;Quote: explore invocation tree with why? to move down tree and then? to show next action
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