[Oberon] OberonErrors.Text.

[Dieter]

I am using

ETH PlugIn Oberon for WindowsTM / Win32 2.5 (18.12.2010)
      on Windows Vista Version 6.2.9200  Glötzel at GLÖTZEL-PC.

It runs actually on Windows 10.

The error messages are in "OP2.Errors" (see attachment).

Regards, Dieter

Am 09.01.2023 um 23:44 schrieb thutt at harp-project.com:
> Hans Klaver writes:
>   > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 9:18 AM <peter at easthope.ca> wrote:
>   >
>   > > In the tutorial for the compiler in ETH Oberon, Andre mentioned OberonErrors.Text.
>   > > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/ETH_Oberon/Tutorial/Compiler#Debugging_compiler_detected_syntax_errors
>   > >
>   > > The only list of errors I've found in ETHO 2.3.7 is in Oberon.Text.
>   > > The best explanation I imagine is that OberonErrors.Text existed
>   > > before the list was incorporated into Oberon.Text.
>   > >
>   > > Ideas?
>   >
>   > I guess that indeed OberonErrors.Text predates Oberon.Text.
>   >
>   > I have an old version of Oberon System (V 1.4 for PC/MS-DOS from
>   > 1992) which has a file OberonErrors.Text. This file has 300
>   > Compile-time Error Numbers and 30 Run-time Trap Numbers. Also the
>   > Oberon Companion by André Fischer and Johannes L. Marais from 1997
>   > mentions OberonErrors.Text (in section 2.5.1.1 on Compiler error
>   > handling).
>   >
>   > I don't know when the name changed to Oberon.Text or otherwise.
>   >
>   > In the past the file OberonErrors.Text was more important for
>   > programmers than now because the compiler only gave error numbers
>   > and no worded description of the error (e.g. the 1992 compiler only
>   > gave 'pos 39 err 40'), so you had to look up what error 40 meant
>   > ;-(
>
> There was a text editor extention (ErrorElems, maybe?) for ETH Oberon
> that took the list of errors produced by the compiler and inserted a
> clickable element in the error point in the source text position that
> would expand, inline, to the text of the error.
>
>

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