Hi Anton,
it's not as if you can't do this, but you have to
'disarm the error before.
a: func [][
if error? err: try [
;
;code that may produce an error here...
;
return "a nice result here"
][
err: disarm err
print reform ["error in function a" err/id]
]
]
regards,
Ingo
Once upon a time [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoketh thus:
> Hi,
>
> I disagree with your last statement (at bottom), Gabriele.
> Recently, I wanted to assign 'err in a program like this (it doesn't
> work):
>
> a: func [][
> if error? err: try [
> ;
> ;code that may produce an error here...
> ;
> return "a nice result here"
> ][print reform ["error in function a" err]]
> ]
>
> Wouldn't that be nice?
> A view program with code like that in all it's functions would keep
> running when an error occurs,
> but prints out the error message so the user can see what happened and
> inform the programmer.
> Or it could be stored in an error log for later viewing...
>
> Maybe we could have do/force or try/harder to continue executing code
> after the try block when an error occurs, instead of bailing out to the
> console. I can imagine a program that automatically emails the author
> when errors occur. How about seeing a brief message like this:
>
> "Error in function blabla: 'doodle is unset. An error report has been
> sent to the author."
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