Re: [q-lang-users] Newbie questions and comments

[Tim H. <q...@st...>]

Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> writes:

> > with no file:line-number, and, critically, execution continues
> > regardless.
> 
> Hmm, yes, the portion of the interpreter which executes the init code is
> a bit simplistic right now. The byte code of an initialization should
> contain a reference to the corresponding source line (IIRC that's not the
> case right now), then the interpreter could give more useful feedback.
> 
> But what would the proper behaviour for a failed match in a def be?
> Really exit the interpreter? Raise an exception? I think that right now
> the interpreter simply abandons execution of the remaining init code of
> the script but continues to the read-eval-print loop anyway, so that you
> can try to find out what went wrong. I think that this behaviour is
> appropriate when running in interactive mode, but I agree that it's not
> very useful in batch mode.

Yeah, that could be reasonable.

> Ok, maybe that's a nice opportunity to try out the (still virgin) Bug
> tracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/q-lang/ ;-) If you have the
> time, please enter a bug report there, then I'll see what I can do about
> this for the next release.

Duly raised. Commiserations on your first sf.net bug :)

~Tim
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