Re: isis bug or feature?

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:29 -0500, John E. Davis wrote:
> Consider this:
> 
>   # isis ./loaddata.sl
>   Failed loading file ./loaddata.sl
> 
>   Welcome to ISIS Version 1.3.1-7
>   Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 
>   isis> 
> 
> When I first encountered this, I did not pay attention to the lines
> before the prompt and assumed the file loaded.  Only several minutes
> later did I realize that something was wrong.  In my opinion, isis
> should exit (with an error status) when it fails to load a file
> specified on the command line.  
> 

I will add code to check whether or not loading the file
generated a slang interrupt.

This will catch some errors but not all.  For example, rather
than interrupting the interpreter, some functions signal an
error by returning an integer status code.  There is no way for
isis to catch all such errors in this context.

Thanks,
-John
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