[stringtemplate-interest] which ST errors are serious

[Terence Parr]

Ok, that's easy. I just throw a STException, in order to puke violently. It's currently an unchecked runtime exception so it would blast out completely from ST land back to your world.

Ter
On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:31 PM, John D. Mitchell wrote:

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> On Nov 30, 2009, at 17:26 , Terence Parr wrote:
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>> 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?
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> Yes.
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> I.e., both but I think "STRICT" is a better term to use. Non-language people are clueless. :-)
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>> 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.
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> Yes, there needs to be a real exception thrown.
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> 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.
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> Rock on,
> John
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