[e-lang] Patch for review: show updoc errors immediately

[Thomas Leonard]

On 2011-09-26 12:29, Kevin Reid wrote:
>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:16, Thomas Leonard wrote:
>
>> On 2011-09-21 14:37, Thomas Leonard wrote:
>>> One problem I frequently hit with updoc is that it doesn't report errors
>>> until the script finishes. But, often, the error prevents the script
>>> from finishing. Then you have to bisect the script manually until you
>>> see the error.
>> [...]
>>
>>> Patch:
>>>
>>> http://gitorious.org/~tal-itinnov/repo-roscidus/it-innovation/commit/dca612f2a472451881c00ea02e290a398a92b22e
>>
>> Any objections to me committing this today?
>
> Sorry, I was waiting on having time to review the existing architecture of makeScriptPlayer and didn't get around to it. I do agree that reporting errors immediately is important for the reason you gave.
>
> Your change looks good overall, except that there should be @param docs for the 'out' parameters you added. Please add those before committing.

Done.

> Also, another nice thing to have would be to add an option to additionally print the individual steps as they are executing (so that finding a hung/lost-signal test is not a matter of counting dots). Or, since the evaluation occurs in a separate vat from the updoc replay (if I recall correctly), have a timeout after which the step is printed and reported as hung.

You can print the steps with: -Dupdoc.trace=true


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