I have just discovered a bug in a tiddler.
I misspelled a macro name and didn't notice it – this is actually a common error of mine.
In all programming languages I tend to see what I hoped to see rather than what is there. I'm pretty bad at spelling.
Mispellling a macro name is a serious error so I want the system to shout out loudly when this happens.
What happens in TW is the expansion of (say) <<badname args>>
causes a
silent error if baname does not exit. ie there is no replacement text.
I'd like the replacement text to be Missing macro badname -- fatal error in tiddler
Is this something I can easily fix????
I HATE silent errors in programming languages - all programming and run-time errors should cause a
huge error message and execution should stop immediately. The error message is so the
programmer can fix the error. Stopping immediately is to avoid further damage.
I given talks about the evils of silent errors. NaN in JS for example is causes errors
which are terribly difficult to find.
I think any error that can be detected should result in a noisy error.
Cheers
/Joe
I HATE silent errors in programming languages - all programming and run-time errors should cause a
huge error message and execution should stop immediately. The error message is so the
programmer can fix the error. Stopping immediately is to avoid further damage.
I given talks about the evils of silent errors. NaN in JS for example is causes errors
which are terribly difficult to find.
I think any error that can be detected should result in a noisy error.
Cheers
/Joe
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