On-line error parsing tool

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the kind words and the explanations :-) To me, it looks  
like the engine makes a list of errors that could have happened. If  
the error had occurred at an earlier stage in the script, the list  
would have been shorter. If x in your example had been a function, the  
list would have been longer. I find this useful, because it tells me  
the path I need to follow to get to the object and script that caused  
the error, which sometimes helps me understand a script and the cause  
of the error.

If the handler DoX actually had not existed, the list of errors would  
have ended at your line 5. Since it exists, line 4 tells you which  
object contains the handler and you already explained the lines before  
that one.

You might consider the errors an extended form of the executionContexts.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

P.S. I just hope I'm right on this, since it isn't documented AFAIK.

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On 21 mrt 2008, at 16:23, Richard Gaskin wrote:

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> If anyone know why the engine generates that line immediately  
> following the one with the error object, and can find it useful, I'd  
> love to learn.
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