Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Luke Tierney wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > >>> I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of >>> error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very >>> much subject to change and anything along the lines

Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Luke Tierney
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: >> I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of >> error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very >> much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will >> make that change more diffi

Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of > error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very > much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will > make that change more difficult. Let's discuss this in two separate parts, then. T

Re: [Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Luke Tierney
I am strongly opposed to locking in anything from the C internals of error handling that is not already part of the API. This is all very much subject to change and anything along the lines you propose will make that change more difficult. Condition handling was added to make this sort of thing p

[Rd] RFC: API to allow identification of warnings and errors in the output stream

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear R developers, this mail is basically a summary / clarification of some previous mails I sent to this list last week (subject "Catching warning and error output"). Duncan Murdoch pointed out that these were badly organized, and suggested I repost, collecting the main points previously sprea