The CL article is really interesting, thanks. What do you think of the idea of using Slingshot's try+ within Dire?
On Saturday, December 29, 2012 3:55:13 PM UTC-5, Ben wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Michael Drogalis > <madru...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > I've never seen that before, Ben. Can you link me? > > Overview of CL conditions/restarts here: > > http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-conditions-and-restarts.html > > > The Clojure lib was clojure.contrib.error-kit > (http://richhickey.github.com/clojure-contrib/error-kit-api.html), > which has been superseded by slingshot---but I think that slingshot > does not aim to provide conditions and restarts. > > > Just pushed version 0.1.1 with these suggestions: > > > > - Tasks are now simple functions, not macros > > - Using metadata to keep track of handlers rather than an atom. > > - Fixed namespace collision issue > > - Pass original arguments of task function to error handler > > > > Any way we can make this better? > > > > On Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:22:30 PM UTC-5, Ben wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Michael Drogalis <madru...@gmail.com> > > >> wrote: > >> > On Saturday, December 29, 2012 9:57:56 AM UTC-5, Adam Clements wrote: > >> >> One thing that worries me though. While this is fine for examples > where > >> >> you simply log the exception and move on, what if you need to do > >> >> something > >> >> more complicated with the actual data? Say for example you need to > >> >> queue/trigger a retry, you no longer have your local bindings to > work > >> >> with > >> >> so you'd have to go back to a normal try/catch (disclaimer - didn't > >> >> read the > >> >> paper, just going off the code and your comments) > >> > > >> > > >> > I agree. There's certainly cases where the handler will want to > restart > >> > the > >> > task and need access to the original bindings. I'll tinker around > with a > >> > clean way to do this. Open for suggestions. > >> > >> Isn't this what Common Lisp's condition system allowed? (And wasn't > >> there a condition-like library for Clojure?) > >> > >> -- > >> Ben Wolfson > >> "Human kind has used its intelligence to vary the flavour of drinks, > >> which may be sweet, aromatic, fermented or spirit-based. ... Family > >> and social life also offer numerous other occasions to consume drinks > >> for pleasure." [Larousse, "Drink" entry] > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your > > first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > > -- > Ben Wolfson > "Human kind has used its intelligence to vary the flavour of drinks, > which may be sweet, aromatic, fermented or spirit-based. ... Family > and social life also offer numerous other occasions to consume drinks > for pleasure." [Larousse, "Drink" entry] > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
