Re: AUTOLOAD in terms of throw

2000-08-17 Thread Tony Olekshy
Glenn Linderman wrote: > > "David L. Nicol" wrote: > > > What I was suggesting was, if you want to overload the > > autoloading of something, it could be done with "catch" > > instead of rewriting the ::OVERLOAD procedure, for that > > module. > > But none of the currently proposed exception handl

yoda 2 clarifications Re: AUTOLOAD in terms of throw

2000-08-17 Thread David L. Nicol
I had been thinking of some special goto labels, things like BEGINNING and END which would signify the beginning and end of the block enclosing the throw; perhaps every SCOPE object could have these labels refered to in terms of them. inside a C we need to have access to a lot of internal flow d

Re: AUTOLOAD in terms of throw

2000-08-17 Thread Glenn Linderman
"David L. Nicol" wrote: > What I was suggesting was, if you want to overload the autoloading > of something, it could be done with "catch" instead of rewriting > the ::OVERLOAD procedure, for that module. > > "method not loaded" becomes an exception which is thrown, rather > than "AUTOLOADING" b