Should merge suppress errors

[Richard Gaskin]

Interesting.  If merge is indeed thwarting normal error handling then 
that may be related.

I just filed a report on this:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18457

I added a second test in which the merge call is within a try block, 
with even weirder results than the first exercise (see the notes there).

There may be a good reason for this behavior, but at the moment it 
eludes me and has made some work I need to do with that function very 
cumbersome, since I have no error reporting when things go wrong, just 
mystifying silence.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


> semi related, but since 8.*  I'm seeing errors that block execution but never throw an error dialog as such… I have turned on debugging and am trying to watch for a recipe. But there are times when
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> stack script: edit/compile (no error thrown)
> botton: calls function or fires command in stack script.
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> run:
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> Debugger opens with the function call in the button flagged… but in fact the error is in the definition of the function in the stack script. go back to stack script
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> "oh sheesh… typo in that variable name…"
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> could be my own ignorance…
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> On 9/21/16, 6:40 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
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>     This suggests that not only are errors within merge operations ignored
>     (something worth exploring in itself), but once an error is encountered
>     in a merge operation execution seems to stop, but silently.