[SAGA-RG] saga core errata

[Andre Merzky]

Hi Paul, 

Quoting [Paul Livesey] (May 12 2009):
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> A couple of corrections/comments
> 
> P37 of the markup document, it says intentation rather than indentation

*blush*


> P38 there's some slight ambiguity.
> 
> <Quoting>
> Error message of the thrown (top level) exception MUST include information about the other (lower level) exceptions.
> 
> In the exception list returned by get_all_exceptions(), the top level (thrown) exception MUST be included again, as first member of the list, to allow for a uniform handling of all exceptions. To avoid infinite recursion, however, that copy MUST NOT have any subexceptions, i.e. the list returned by a call to get_all_exceptions() MUST be empty. ....
> </Quote>
> 
> This brings up the question of what the error message *should* be for the copy of the top level exception in the list.  Should it also contain information about the lower level exceptions which it no longer has?

Good point! No, it should not - I'll make that clear in the
text.

Thanks, Andre.


> Regards,
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: saga-rg-bounces at ogf.org on behalf of Andre Merzky
> Sent: Tue 12/05/2009 13:31
> To: SAGA RG
> Subject: [SAGA-RG] saga core errata
>  
> Hi folx, 
> 
> I have no doubt that there is a fundamental reason why the
> German language has such a large number of proverbs which
> literally inspire procrastination ("Gut Ding braucht Weile",
> "Was lange waehrt wird gut", "Rom wurde auch nicht an einem
> Tag gebaut", usw.
> 
> In anyway, that is what you have to blame for the long delay
> of the errata release of the SAGA core spec: my German
> genes... ;-)
> 
> So, attached is the pdf which has all errata known to date
> incorporated, and marked.  Also attached is a version which
> has the markup removed, a changelog, and the original ERRATA
> file from CVS, which documents the errata we received.
> 
> Please comment!  But as the errata have already been discussed
> during the last two OGF meetings, I would also like to
> declare this as a final call on the SAGA mailing list:
> unless there are significant comments, I'll submit the doc
> to the OGF editor after one week.
> 
> BTW: thanks to Mathijs, Paul, Hartmut, Steve, Ole, Joao,
> Thilo, Ceriel, and PFA for reporting spec errors (hope I did
> not forget anybody...).
> 
> Many thanks for your patience, best wishes, 
> 
>   Andre.
> 
> 
> PS.: We have two SAGA sessions scheduled for OGF-26.  
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