Re: [slang-users] new slang 2 development snapshot released

[Paul Boekholt <p.boekholt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:31:49 -0500, "John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> 
> As Mike point out, S-Lang 2 throws an exception when it encounters a
> parse error.  Such exceptions can be caught:
> 
>    expression = "(":
>    try
>    {
>       eval ("(");
>    }
>    catch ParseError:
>    {  
>       vmessage ("failed to parse expression");
>    }

As I understand it, Ben just wants his code snippets to be checked for
syntax errors.  Eval() will execute the code as well, definitely not what
he wants.  What does byte-compiling do? 

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