Date:         Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:05:12 -0400
Reply-To:     Dianne Rhodes <RHODESD1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Dianne Rhodes <RHODESD1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: automated log-checking
Comments: To: Quentin McMullen <QuentinMcMullen@WESTAT.com>
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Quentin said:


 >One issue I hadn't really considered was how log-checking
 >should detect
 >user-generated error messages.
 >
 Following a discussion of the use of

If cond then error ;
or

If cond then _error_ = 1;

Q, I think both statements are doing the same thing, that is setting the
automatic variable,
_error_ to True or 1.

IMHO they should be treated the same as any other ERROR;
the author needs to evaluate them and decide if they are problems.

What about  when _error_ is set back to 0?

_error_ = 0 ;

I have done that in a program where I had known bad data and did not want to
see the errors written to the log.

Dianne Louise Rhodes
Sr. Systems Analyst
Westat

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