Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Improving the Sub Not Found Error Message

2008-05-06 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:16:01AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: When you try to invoke a sub that doesn't exist, Parrot currently gives the unhelpful error message Null PMC access in invoke(). Sometimes you can figure out what's wrong given the backtrace. Often you can't. ... The

[PROPOSED PATCH] Improving the Sub Not Found Error Message

2008-05-02 Thread chromatic
When you try to invoke a sub that doesn't exist, Parrot currently gives the unhelpful error message Null PMC access in invoke(). Sometimes you can figure out what's wrong given the backtrace. Often you can't. It would be nice instead to get a more specific error message indicating that you

Re: [PROPOSED PATCH] Improving the Sub Not Found Error Message

2008-05-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 11:40:43PM -0700, chromatic wrote: When you try to invoke a sub that doesn't exist, Parrot currently gives the unhelpful error message Null PMC access in invoke(). Sometimes you can figure out what's wrong given the backtrace. Often you can't. Just a quick note here