From: Dirk Herrmann <dirk@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: proposal: meaningful read error messages
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:50:30 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10208190848430.16068-100000@sallust.ida.ing.tu-bs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15685.13317.103079.561203@meddo.cs.uu.nl>
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> I propose to install more meaningful error messages in scm_lreadr():
> we could replace SCM_MISC_ERROR() by the following macro:
>
> #define INPUT_ERROR(port,message,arg) \
> { char s[1024];\
> char *fn = scm_string_p (SCM_FILENAME(port)) ? SCM_STRING_CHARS(SCM_FILENAME(port)) : ""; \
> sprintf (s, "In %s:%ld:%d : %s", fn, SCM_LINUM(port), SCM_COL(port) + 1, message);\
> SCM_MISC_ERROR(s, arg);\
> }\
>
>
> any thoughts, comments? (Should this be switched off if
> SCM_RECORD_POSITIONS_P is off?)
I like better error messages. However, I would suggest to use a function
instead of a macro. Performance is not a problem when it comes to
handling errors.
Best regards,
Dirk
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2002-07-29 12:24 proposal: meaningful read error messages Han-Wen Nienhuys
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