Yeah. I was planning on spending time on the compiler, but time has not been recently as forthcoming as I was hoping… ;-)
FWIW, my daughter is finishing school soon and I’m going to have her try and learn the compiler. I’ll see how that goes… Harbs > On May 1, 2018, at 7:53 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote: > > Sorry, I thought the link was to the source so I didn't click on it. > > This could be a good exercise for anyone wanting to learn more about the > compiler to figure out how to catch this situation (maybe by detecting the > AST for "void 0") and outputting an error instead of an NPE, or swapping in > "undefined". > > -Alex > > On 5/1/18, 9:35 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I attached a paste of the stack in my email. > > I just finished resolving all my errors. It was hard to trace them down, > but I just discovered that there were uses of "void 0" in the code. I > replaced all those cases with “undefined" and poof! All my errors went away! > :-) > > My theory is that use of void 0 was confusing the compiler and causing > errors elsewhere… I’m not sure how to demonstrate this… > > Harbs > > (P.S. Sorry I’ve been so quiet lately. Life has been pretty busy… ;) ) > >> On May 1, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com.INVALID> wrote: >> >> What is the call stack for the null pointer? >> >> On 5/1/18, 5:05 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I’m trying to compile a library using comic and I’m getting a **LOT** of >> null pointer errors. They seem to be related to missing type information, >> although I’m not completely sure why the missing type information is causing >> these errors. >> >> Some of the errors are resolved-able by adding type info, but not all. >> >> I picked one at random to track down the issue: >> >> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaste.apache.org%2F8pLB&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C31fb16c8d65948a50da008d5af5bd2c6%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636607731304191116&sdata=ik%2FnmWaooQD%2BwLT6VM1JN1ypa4BdOXe8VS1NfyF5FUw%3D&reserved=0 >> >> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpaste.apache.org%2F8pLB&data=02%7C01%7Caharui%40adobe.com%7C31fb16c8d65948a50da008d5af5bd2c6%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636607731304191116&sdata=ik%2FnmWaooQD%2BwLT6VM1JN1ypa4BdOXe8VS1NfyF5FUw%3D&reserved=0> >> >> The line in question looks like this: >> var codepoint:int = glyphs[i].codePoints[0]; >> >> glyphs[I] is a “GlyphInfo” instance. Either of the following two changes >> make this particular error go away: >> var codepoint:* = glyphs[i].codePoints[0]; >> var codepoint:int = (glyphs[i] as GlyphInfo).codePoints[0]; >> >> I’m not really sure why these changes are necessary though… >> >> Thoughts? >> Harbs >> > > >
