[stringtemplate-interest] which ST errors are serious

[John D. Mitchell]

On Nov 30, 2009, at 17:26 , Terence Parr wrote:

> cool. so instead of just emitting an error, you want it to actually  
> throw an exception that terminates ST the evaluation or are you just  
> saying let's make a PENDANTIC value that make sure an error is  
> emitted for everything?

Yes.

I.e., both but I think "STRICT" is a better term to use. Non-language  
people are clueless. :-)

> I think you are saying we need a way to get the programmers  
> attention beyond emitting an error message. I think the only way to  
> escalate though is to throw an exception and blast out of the  
> interpreter back to the webpage servlet or whatever.

Yes, there needs to be a real exception thrown.

Sorry for the extra hassle but I can show you some xslt templating  
crap that would make you cry and so it's clear that people will abuse  
and ignore things to a degree that destroys systems.

Rock on,
John