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Object neutral error handling via exceptions
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Maintainer: Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000
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Number: 119
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Exception objects and classes for builtins
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Maintainer: Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2000
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David L. Nicol wrote:
>
> This ability to jump to "the right place" is exactly what exception handling
> is for, as I understand it. Exceptions allow us to have one kind of block
> and any number of kinds of exit mechanisms. If qC(last die return) are all
> excpetions, the can travel up the call
'John Porter' wrote:
>
> David L. Nicol wrote:
> > "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
> > >
> > > I think we need a distinction between "looping" blocks and
> > > "non-looping" blocks. And further, it still makes sense to
> > > distinguish "blocks that return values" (like subroutines and map/grep
> >