Re: [tap] Parse error vs failure

Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> Mon, 02 February 2009 12:15 UTC

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On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:37, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * 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.


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