[Docutils-develop] Re: Where to store the reporter object

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Martin Blais wrote:

> Felix Wiemann wrote:
>
>> Martin Blais wrote:
>>
>>> the document tree relates to "the representation of the document".
>>>
>>> the reporter relates to "the process of running" a parser / reader /
>>> writer / transform.
>> 
>> No, that's the Publisher.  A document doesn't know its Publisher.
>
> let me rephrase: the reporter relates much more to the publisher than
> to the document.

As I wrote, you have a one-to-one reporter-to-document relationship, so
it wouldn't help much, and you'd have to pass the reporter to each and
every function which could theoretically generate a system message,
which is just not possible.

If you still disagree, show code please.

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