[lojban] Re: Poll time! (jbofi'e related)

[Chris Capel <pdf23ds@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 01:29, <MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com> wrote:
>> In a message dated 7/8/2009 23:53:28 Eastern Daylight Time,
>> pdf23ds@gmail.com writes:
>>
>>
>> Jbofi'e's often nonexistent error messages are extremely frustrating,
>> to be sure. Lojgloss should never have that. (It does happen
>> sometimes, but those are always bugs that are usually pretty simple to
>> fix.)
>>
>> So I'm wondering how many of you would be satisfied with (A) simply
>> knowing how far into the parsed text the parser got (the more advanced
>> students of Lojban, I assume), i.e. *where* the error happened, and
>> how many of you would like to (B) have more detail, in the form of a
>> somewhat cryptic tree of parsing information that can potentially
>> assist you, but might require a bit of puzzling over. Please vote at
>> http://www.micropoll.com/akira/mpview/622722-182488
>>
>> BTW, I'm looking into permanent external hosting for Lojgloss, which
>> is currently run from my home machine, and currently down (because of
>> my mabla ISP).
>
>
> Is it possible to have both?  jbofi'e for one and Lojgloss for the other?
>  Or are you asking about replacing one with the other?

What I'm asking is whether I should bother making the detailed error
messages in Lojgloss, or just settle for the basic ones. There will
always be jbofi'e, of course. (Though I am to replace it in practice.)

Chris
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