Re: [MacPerl] Oddity with BBEdit 6.0

[Jim Correia <correia@barebones.com>]

On 9:26 PM 12/20/00 Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com> wrote:

> At 3:23 PM 12/20/00, Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:
>   I am having trouble using the Syntax from Perl in BBEdit.  When I
check syntaxt I don't get the nice error window anymore showing the
errors in nice formatted boxes.   They simply appear in the output
window.  Does anyone know why I'm not getting the Error window any more?
> 
> That happened to me, too (BBEdit 6.0.2). I boiled it down to the way I
(mis)quoted a string argument to a method call.
> 
> Works:
> my $query = $voters->prepare("ORDER BIRTHDATE, LAST");
> 
> Works:
> my $query = $voters->prepare('ORDER BIRTHDATE, LAST');
> 
> Errors in usual BBEdit Errors window:
> my $query = $voters->prepare("ORDER BIRTHDATE, LAST);
> 
> Errors in MacPerl Output window only:
> my $query = $voters->prepare('ORDER BIRTHDATE, LAST);
> 
> So, I suspect there's an explanation related to interpolation.
> 
> I've cc:ed Barebones.

If you have a bug report send it to <support@barebones.com> so we are
guaranteed to see it.

MacPerl just returns the errors to BBEdit as a big chunk of text. 
BBEdit does the best it can to parse them out into an error browser. 
But to be sure that information isn't lost it has a quick heuristic to
count errors.  If it couldn't parse out all the errors, or any, it dumps
the STEDERR text to a window so you can see the information.  If there
is a regularly structured error that we aren't parsing, I can do my best
to fix it.  If it is something just screwey, then the fallback is the
only hope.  

If this happens to you send a script which produces the problem and/or
the error output to support so it can be logged and dealt with.

Jim

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

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