Subj : Re: error handling in SpiderMonkey
To   : Forest Rankin <frankin@miramar.com>
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Sat Aug 09 2003 01:09 am

Forest Rankin wrote:

>How do I get the SpiderMonkey engine go through a
>Javascript script from start to end and report ALL syntax errors it
>can find, rather than just stopping on the first syntax error and kicking
>out?
>

You'd have to add error recovery to the parser.  That's something I 
wanted to do originally, but it never became important enough in 
web-browser embeddings.

>I would also like to be able to log runtime errors and continue like
>the browser does.
>  
>

What do you mean by continue?  An error that is not caught as an 
exception stops the errant script or function in its tracks.

/be

.