Catching the Notification stops it from popping up the syntaxErrorDebugger.

'AAA.st' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :s |

               importer := CodeImporter fileStream: s.

               [ importer evaluateDeclarations ] on: SyntaxErrorNotification do: [ :e | ���]

].

From: Pharo-dev [mailto:pharo-dev-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Tudor Girba
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 11:25 PM
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
Subject: [Pharo-dev] how to swallow a syntax error?

Hi,

I am having trouble making the compiler not be interactive when it encounters a syntax error.

To reproduce the problem I attach here an .st file that has a funny character in the method name. If I file this in, like:

���AAA.st��� asFileReference fileIn.

 I get a Syntax Error dialog. I would like to avoid that.

After diving in, I noticed that I can tell the requestor of the CodeImporter to not be interactive, but that does not seem to have an effect:

'AAA.st' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :s |

importer := CodeImporter fileStream: s.
importer requestor interactive: false.
importer evaluateDeclarations ]

I also tried to play on the end of the SyntaxErrorDebugger, and replace it with something that logs the exception, but I was not successful because that one is expected to return a string that can be compiled.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Doru

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