refactor: better error messages

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Author: aayush0325

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/lapack/base/dlange/lib/base.js

@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ function maxAbs( M, N, A, strideA1, strideA2, offsetA ) {
 * @param {integer} strideA1 - stride of the first dimension of `A`
 * @param {integer} strideA2 - stride of the second dimension of `A`
 * @param {NonNegativeInteger} offsetA - starting index of `A`
-* @param {Float64Array} work - only used to compute the infinity norm, expects `M` indexed elements if computing the infinity norm otherwise it's fine to pass a dummy array
+* @param {Float64Array} work - work array, should have `M` indexed elements
 * @param {integer} strideWork - stride length of `work`
 * @param {NonNegativeInteger} offsetWork - starting index of `work`
 * @returns {number} required norm value

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/lapack/base/dlange/lib/dlange.js

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ var isColumnMajor = require( '@stdlib/ndarray/base/assert/is-column-major-string
 var max = require( '@stdlib/math/base/special/max' );
 var format = require( '@stdlib/string/format' );
 var isOperation = require( './isoperation.js' );
+var NORMS = require( './norms.json' ).norms;
 var base = require( './base.js' );
 
 
@@ -71,7 +72,7 @@ function dlange( order, norm, M, N, A, LDA, work ) {
 		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. First argument must be a valid order. Value: `%s`.', order ) );
 	}
 	if ( !isOperation( norm ) ) {
-		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. Second argument must be a valid operation. Value: `%s`.', norm ) );
+		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. Second argument must be one of the following: "%s". Value: `%s`.', NORMS.join( '", "' ), norm ) );
 	}
 	if ( isRowMajor( order ) && LDA < max( 1, N ) ) {
 		throw new RangeError( format( 'invalid argument. Sixth argument must be greater than or equal to max(1,%d). Value: `%d`.', N, LDA ) );

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/lapack/base/dlange/lib/isoperation.js

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ var contains = require( '@stdlib/array/base/assert/contains' ).factory;
 
 // VARIABLES //
 
-var NORMS = [ 'max', 'infinity', 'one', 'frobenius' ];
+var NORMS = require( './norms.json' ).norms;
 
 
 // MAIN //

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/lapack/base/dlange/lib/ndarray.js

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 var format = require( '@stdlib/string/format' );
 var isOperation = require( './isoperation.js' );
+var NORMS = require( './norms.json' ).norms;
 var base = require( './base.js' );
 
 
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ var base = require( './base.js' );
 */
 function dlange( norm, M, N, A, strideA1, strideA2, offsetA, work, strideWork, offsetWork ) { // eslint-disable-line max-len
 	if ( !isOperation( norm ) ) {
-		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. First argument must be a valid operation. Value: `%s`.', norm ) );
+		throw new TypeError( format( 'invalid argument. Second argument must be one of the following: "%s". Value: `%s`.', NORMS.join( '", "' ), norm ) );
 	}
 	return base( norm, M, N, A, strideA1, strideA2, offsetA, work, strideWork, offsetWork ); // eslint-disable-line max-len
 }

lib/node_modules/@stdlib/lapack/base/dlange/lib/norms.json

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "norms": [
+    "max",
+    "one",
+    "infinity",
+    "frobenius"
+  ]
+}