RE:Re: CINT doesn't see syntactic error

From: Masaharu Goto (MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp)
Date: Sat Mar 06 1999 - 06:42:27 MET


Buskulic,

Thank you for the message. 

I understand your situation. People are most likely frustrated when 
the system behaves differently from their expectation.
In this sense, a bit moderate expectation could make people happier,
I thought.  Probably, wording in my previous message was not appropreate.
I would like to re-state it as follows.

1) Please have moderate expectation to ROOT/CINT. 
2) Due to difficulty of C++ handling, things aren't perfect. But, if you 
   could live with it, it gives you some good things.
3) ROOT/CINT is improving. So feedback is welcome.  
4) Sometimes it is difficult to change things due to backward compatibility 
   or design philosophy. 

Masaharu Goto

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Masa,
I understand you are fed up with those kinds of requests. It's just that
I never saw somebody using ROOT without restarting it several times
(because he/she doesn't know the state of the system after a break of
any sort) inside one single session. Of course, this happens mostly to
beginners but we are all subject to this. I'm aware that this is also
due to the ROOT/CINT interface and I try to participate to the debugging
as much as I can.
It would just be good that people don't feel these situations as
painful.
I understand perfectly that this is not simple with a C/C++ interpreter
but I don't think it would be good that people think "they won't make
this interpreter evolve anymore and I will be stuck with this apparently
cahotic behaviour that doesn't allow me any mistake". I've heard that
kind of comment.
I know it's not your intention. I'm just in the process of trying to
convince people to use ROOT and they begin to use it and see it's a
little bit more difficult than advertised by me. This makes me feel
uneasy. Especially if they come from a background where the interpreter
was not as powerful but was more forgiving (Paw, Matlab, which is in
fact very powerful)

Finally, I don't have any request or idea how to enhance things,
unfortunately. And I really apologize for disturbing you.
Thanks very much for your efforts and reply

Damir



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