Truncate llSay() instead of Chat Overrun

Can anything think of a reason why the system can't truncate our messages sent with llSay(), llWhisper() and llShout() to 255 characters instead of harshly having a script run-time error?

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Oversight, maybe?
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I second that the chat be truncated.

The only reason I can fathom why they implemented this is kinda far-reaching.

Maybe they figured that if the scripter saw the >255 char llSay call execute w/o error they would assume it worked, and wouldn't realize it truncated until they saw unexpected behavior in their application.

Let's just truncate the text

It does seem strange, since most of the built-in functions fail gracefully, except this one =)

I'd like to see an event for handling errors. That way, errors can be raised and either handled by the scripter, or shown to the world via chat.

try/except/finally blocks would be even better, and preferred

But, for this particular error, I agree with Kex and Michael: simply truncating the output without an error would be the best behaviour.

Exception handling would be huge, and is an old request. Exceptions wouldn't even have to be specific; just "if any error at all occurs let me handle it". However, some form of llGetErrorMessage or something would be great.

I wrote a function that actually does check for chat overruns, the problem is though, the font used in chat is non proportional. So, for instance, you can fit lots and lots of "." chars, but not nearly as many "W" or "X" chars. So what I ended up doing was assuming the worst case, which would be a spoken string of capital Ws, which means I can get about 250ish chars in chat before an overrun. So you take your string to be spoken, and if it's greater than 250ish chars, truncate it, then submit it to llSay(). If the font was proportional I wouldn't have to bother with the worst case, but well there ya go.

wouldnt it be much simpler if all lsl function return q vqlue depending if they succed or failed?

linstead of having:
llGiveinventory(foo bar)

integer(llGiveInventory(foo bar)

so i could use nice code like

if (llGiveInventory(target,"myobject")
{
llWhisper(0,"success"
}
else
{
llInstantMessage(llGetOwner(),"an error occured";
}