Lojban In General

Posted by stevo on Sat 28 of Nov, 2009 12:06 GMT posts: 381

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?

stevo

Posted by pdf23ds on Sat 28 of Nov, 2009 12:06 GMT posts: 143

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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Posted by stevo on Sat 28 of Nov, 2009 12:06 GMT posts: 381

In a message dated 7/9/2009 10:08:52 Eastern Daylight Time,
pdf23ds@gmail.com writes:

> 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.)
>

I prefer as much detail as I can get, where it breaks and why, possibly how
to fix it.

stevo