Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

Apparently nobody noticed that Rust's output on panic has the location/message switched for 7.5 years

If you're not sure what I mean, it says > Thread 'name' panicked at 'msg', location when it should say > Thread 'name' panicked at location, 'msg'

Does your perception change if you think of it as 'step' or 'marker' (rather than 'msg') followed by more technical location detail?

Nope, it still sounds wrong (and I went code spelunking to find where it was introduced to see that it was not intentional, which is why I know it's been 7.5 years)

Fair enough. That's (roughly) how I've always thought of it.. go look for 'msg' as a named part of the location. Until you altered my perception in the other direction .. :)

Yeah, I think most folks (myself included) just assumed it was an awkwardly phrased sentence. Was looking at the line today though and thought "this is way to easy for the message to have been changed but the arg order forgot to be changed for that not to be what happened".

great example of why we should (but won't) name fmt args