Re: [Gawkextlib-users] What's the GAWK way to report errors on individual records?

[Vinícius d. S. O. <vin...@gm...>]

Em seg., 7 de jun. de 2021 às 10:23, Andrew J. Schorr <
as...@te...> escreveu:

> You are certainly free to use global variables to configure the
> behavior of your library. Many extensions do this; for example,
> the XML extension uses the XMLMODE variable. But if you expect gawk
> to implement this policy for you, then I don't know how that would
> work. It would be the extension's responsibility to implement this type
> of behavior. How could gawk enforce it for you? To do that, we'd have
> to change the API, which seems unlikely.
>

Okay. Thanks.

I was just uneasy given I don't have much actual experience with AWK, so I
wanted to check whether a current or similar idiom/convention for this was
already in place as to not create new friction between extensions.

I'll introduce a new var on my plugin and roll with it.


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