[tcljava-user] Error lines and errorInfo in jacl

[Jared H. <ho...@mo...>]

So I see the open bug about reporting error line numbers in jacl.  How
do people work around this right now?  I also see the $errorInfo
variable being set in jacl, which would be useful if the error line
numbers could be trusted.  Unfortunately, any backslash newline
continuations earlier in the file cause the line number here to be
reported incorrectly (because these are parsed out before the error line
is calculated).  It seems to me that instead of parsing out the
backslash-newlines they should be treated as a different type of token
that is ignored for most purposes except for computing line numbers.
I'm not fully versed enough in jacl to do the code changes yet, but does
anyone have any thoughts on this issue?  Maybe I should send this to the
tcljava-dev mailing list.

 

-Jared