Re: [tap] Parse error vs failure

Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> Sat, 31 January 2009 21:37 UTC

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From: Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
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* Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> [2009-01-31 21:20]:
> Generally prefer failure-with-warning over parse error for
> valid but sort of nonsense output?

Basically. I think we should differentiate between syntactical
and semantic errors.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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