how to swallow a syntax error?

> On May 21, 2016, at 11:30 PM, Henrik Nergaard <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Catching the Notification stops it from popping up the syntaxErrorDebugger.
>  
> 'AAA.st' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :s |
>                importer := CodeImporter fileStream: s.
>              
>                [ importer evaluateDeclarations ] on: SyntaxErrorNotification do: [ :e | …]
>              
> ].
>  
> From: Pharo-dev [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Tudor Girba
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 11:25 PM
> To: Pharo Development List <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Pharo-dev] how to swallow a syntax error?
>  
> Hi,
>  
> I am having trouble making the compiler not be interactive when it encounters a syntax error.
>  
> To reproduce the problem I attach here an .st file that has a funny character in the method name. If I file this in, like:
>             ‘AAA.st’ asFileReference fileIn.
>  
>  I get a Syntax Error dialog. I would like to avoid that.
>  
> After diving in, I noticed that I can tell the requestor of the CodeImporter to not be interactive, but that does not seem to have an effect:
> 'AAA.st' asFileReference readStreamDo: [ :s |
>             importer := CodeImporter fileStream: s.
>             importer requestor interactive: false.
>             importer evaluateDeclarations ]
>  
> I also tried to play on the end of the SyntaxErrorDebugger, and replace it with something that logs the exception, but I was not successful because that one is expected to return a string that can be compiled.
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> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>  
> Cheers,
> Doru
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