[CCC DEV] The transterpreter and die(..)

[Michael Pirrone-Brusse]

Hey all,
    So, I've been doing a good bit of work on the Plumbing library over the
past couple weeks, and I think I'm rounding on the
cleanup/polishing/making-it-all-usable-again portion of this push. The one
big problem I'm still having, though, is that whenever die( "..." ) is
called during a run, the string that's supposed to be acting as the error
message isn't being displayed. The transterpreter most definitely dies, it's
just not printing the "No, Drew. You're doing this wrong again," messages
I've been putting in for myself.

    My gut reaction - and a solution Matt seemed to think of and dismiss
faster than I did - was using serial to print those message. Obvious problem
is if serial hasn't been setup, nothing gets printed. Even worse is if a
device that isn't your computer is hooked up to the serial port, and all of
a sudden it gets clobbered by a fun little string while you're trying to
figure out why the lights stopped blinking...

    If anyone has any better thoughts on getting them die messages printed,
I'd greatly appreciate a shout,
        - Drew Pirrone-Brusse
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