On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 04:12:17PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> >Would someone please enlighten me as to the purpose of an explicit "try."
>
> Well, for one, it makes it easier to see that a block is subject to
> exception handling if all you have to do is look at the beginning for 'try'
> rather than scan through it for a 'catch'.
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 06:24:08PM -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
> The "try" is not necessarily for Perl's sake. It's for the
> programmer's sake. It says, watch out, some sort of non-local
> flow control may be going on here. It signals intent to deal
> with action at a distance (unwinding semantics).
How important are the exceptions? What about putting them first?
exceptions {
# code that does exception handling
}
{
# code that may throw exceptions
}
Note that's a two-block keyword.
> I don't think we should obfuscate classic try/throw/catch/finally
> from the ground up.
I'm inclined to agree with you, but as you can see, I'm not letting
that hamper my brainstorming effort :-)
-Scott
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