From: gv@... (Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk)
Date: 2003-07-07T18:36:26+09:00
Subject: Re: trapping compile time errors

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:19:26 +0900, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:15:45PM +0900, Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk wrote:
>> I want to catch compile time errors with my own method.
>..
>> Eventually,
>> I came up with the following, which is not as I imagined.  It's ugly.
>
>It's correct though - need an 'eval' because you must have a working
>(syntactically-valid) program A to report the error, before attempting to
>compile invalid program B.

Allright.  This is good.  Still, I hope it is possible to report
syntax errors other than by eval.  Or am I aiming for the impossible?
(In Perl it is possible anyway.)

Why I want it is to report all errors including syntax to the browser.
Such errors must always be preceded by a "Content-type: text/html\n\n"

I don't want to use the CGI module, because I consider this to be
overkill for the small script I am writing.