Re: Simplification of localization.

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 01/11/2014 11.39, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> > I think this is a bad idea in itself.  any message generated by the
> > engine itself should be considered part of the implementation, not to
> > be shown to a user.
>
> I strongly agree!

I think most of us agree on that. What I would like to have is a way to 
identify an error made by an user within a Lua-base domain-specific 
language, so that I could show an appropriate message
(where "appropriate" could mean application-related, simplified and/or 
translated).

Currently the information available from pcall() and (indirectly) from 
xpcall() is the default "error object", which is a string.
File name and line number are easily parsed from that string, error type 
and parameters are not.

Maybe I am just missing something obvious. How do Lua-scriptable games 
handle error feedback in user scripts?

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  Enrico