Re: [Bug-gnubg] positive error rate bug

[kvandoel]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Joern Thyssen wrote:

> > What is needed  (at least if you want to  do unsupervised batch analysis
> > of matches)  is a format checking  module on importing  matches.  If the
> > format is incorrect (and this happens a LOT when dealing with real-world
> > generated .mat files) the result should not be undefined or a crash, but
> > a failure to load plus the setting  of a status flag which can be polled
> > from a script to detect load status.
>
> The best I can offer without major re-programming is that gnubg ignores
> invalid moves or stops reading once an illegal move is encountered.

That would be better than strange results or a crash. Can you not set a
flag once such an illegal move is encountered so I could check after analysis
that it was legal or not?

Kees