Just curious: can you throw something? not if .. [thow] but if .. [throw 'dummy] maybe there is the bug in 'throw.
On 4/25/05, Anton Reisacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >=20 > How safe is catch? >=20 > I have some rebol applications serving message communication (around 1000= to > 2000 messages per day mostly) running for more than half a year on > Windows2000 Server without interruption since the last update of the OS f= or > security reasons. >=20 > Recently I had to add some message splitting: > one-message --> [message-part-1 message-part-2 message-part-3] >=20 > I used a construct similar to this >=20 > forever [ > until [new-messages-available] > foreach message new-messages [ > catch [ > if not important [throw] > do-some-heavy-message-processing-and data-complet= ion-using-odbc > if some-tests [throw] > message-parts: split-messages message > until [ > catch [ > message: first message-parts > do-more-conversions > if other-tests [throw] > deliver message > emtpy? message-parts: next messag= e-parts > ] > ] > ] > ] > ] >=20 > Now I saw two crashes in one day. > I was somehow able to reproduce the crash > "Invalid data type during recycle" > by playing again the history of one to two weeks. But the crash happened > always processing another message. >=20 > As I had seen in the past instable behaviour with constructs like this > foreach ... [ > catch [ > .. > data: any [ > a > b > throw > ] > .. > .. > ] > ] >=20 > I replaced the inner catch with statements like this > if not other-tests [ > deliver message > ] > and the crash went away. >=20 > Now I am curious if someone else encountered the same behaviour too? >=20 > -- > +++ GMX - Die erste Adresse f=FCr Mail, Message, More +++ >=20 > 1 GB Mailbox bereits in GMX FreeMail http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. >=20 >=20 --=20 -Volker "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem." David Wheeler -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
