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From: d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LSP 2.0 too stable...
Message-ID: <558@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 18 Feb 89 17:40:10 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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I've had Think Pascal 2.0 for some time now, and I think it is great.
However, there is one thing I find especially annoying (apart from
the formatter, the usual flames apply there :-) and that is that the
integrated environment (i.e. when you run a program from within the 
Pascal) is too forgiving for programming errors. To make a long story
short, I've been working on a program where a certain procedure would
take a ProcPtr as a parameter and then call that procedure. I
inadvertantly called it with a pointer to a procedure with the wrong
number of arguments. This usually causes a crash, right? Well, sort of.
when I run the program as a compiled application it certainly crashes,
but when run from inside Pascal nothing unusual happens.
In fact, I've seen this several times - a program runs fine from 
within the compiler and crashes when you try it as an application.
Rich, could you make the environment a little less stable for the
next version? :-)

	Sven Axelsson		d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se
	dep:t of Linguistics
	univ. of Gothenburg
	SWEDEN