Re: [MacPerl] What am I not seeing? (followup)

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 7/15/99 at 3:51 PM, Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> wrote:

> At 09:11 -0700 7/15/99, Brian McNett wrote:
> >
> > All *I* can do is agree that it's weird!  Also not particularly
> > helpful in the second case!  Is this JUST MacPerl, or do other Perls
> > do this too?
> 
> It appears to be a MacPerl/BBEdit interaction glitch. Unix Perl
> doesn't change and MacPerl app doesn't either so I've filed a bug
> report at BB.

That comment causes MacPerl to generate a funny multi-line error. 
BBEdit is stuck parsing STDERR into an error browser, and you can
presumably print anything to STDERR as well to confuse it, so it isn't a
trivial process.

What it does is it first runs a quick heuristic on the text to figure
out how many errors there are.  If it for some reason can't parse the
errors, or doesn't parse out as many as the guess, it will dump STDERR
to the output window so that you don't loose information.

If you have errors that aren't being parsed out correctly send a bug
report (as was done in this case) to support@barebones.com so we can
have a look at it.  Life would be much simpler if errors were passed
back in a record in the apple event in addition to the STDERR chunk. 
Maybe in the future when Matthias has more time than he knows what to do
with I can convince him to implement this :-)

Jim

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Jim Correia                                Bare Bones Software, Inc.
correia@barebones.com                     <http://web.barebones.com>



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