Re: die if a module is missing

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

John Devereux wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Am 12.03.2009 um 15:06 schrieb John Devereux:
>>
>>> Michael Bynum <mdbynum@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> This has burned me too.  It would be nice if the errors were more
>>>> prominent, perhaps repeated at the end of the output?
>>>> Mike
>>> While we are on the subject, is it possible to make it "die" when
>>> incorrect (non-existent) options are passed to a context command? Is
>>> there any way at all of knowing if the option did anything (even by
>>> examining the log?)
>> No, this is not possible and even such a feature would increase
>> the compile time a lot, e.g. I used list with valid names in a earlier
>> version of my letter module and it was 30% slower than the current
>> version and now imagine what happens if you check each key in a
>> assignment list.
> 
> OK. It seems strange (coming from a programming background). 
> 
> If it is only the compile time, then a command line switch might be an
> option. (But it sounds like it is inherently hard to do, now).

i can probably implement some kind of checking (runtime switch, or maybe 
even switch at format generation time) but i will do so only when i've 
completely split of the mkiv code

Hans


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