Re: errors and their keywords and where catch can return to and stuff like that

2000-08-13 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:30 PM 8/13/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Why not call them throw and catch, like everywhere else, >and reccomend them over die? "If everyone else was jumping off a bridge, would you jump too?" (With apologies to my mom... :) What everyone else is doing isn't hugely relevant. What we a

Re: errors and their keywords and where catch can return to and stuff like that

2000-08-13 Thread Peter Scott
At 03:30 PM 8/13/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >Whose RFC deals with this? 63, 70, 80, 88 and 96. There would appear to be a groundswell of interest :-) The mailing list for discussing this is [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Further discussion in the thread discussed the idea of returning >to the point

errors and their keywords and where catch can return to and stuff like that

2000-08-13 Thread David L. Nicol
Whose RFC deals with this? Why not call them throw and catch, like everywhere else, and reccomend them over die? In fact Die could be defined in terms of throw sub die(@){ throw(generic_fatal,$!,@_) } * Further discussion in the thread discussed the idea of returning to the point