Good evening Clint,
I'll download the latest svn shortly and test. Thank you.
Jafar,
Thanks for both of your examples. I'll review my code and implement the
change. This is a useful technique that I had forgotten about (I read
about it in some of the Unicon documentation I have). I think it was in
connection with building a try-catch structure.
regards to all.
Bruce Rennie
On 19/04/13 12:46, Clinton Jeffery wrote:
Bruce,
It would be relatively trivial to make classname() fail instead of
die, if given a non-object. In fact, since I can't imagine any program
depending on the old semantics, I went ahead and committed the change
to SVN. I expect it will make it out into Windows binaries next time
they are built.
As far as whether there should be a more efficient way to do what you
are doing, Jafar's method is fine. There is a legitimate question as
to whether all objects' type() should have a __state suffix or if the
language should report type(obj) as == _classname, so what you are
doing might change if we decide to change the language on that point.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Bruce & Breeanna Rennie
<bren...@dcsi.net.au <mailto:bren...@dcsi.net.au>> wrote:
Clint and Jafar,
How much effort would it be to change the behaviour of the function
"classname" to fail on a non-class value instead of aborting the
program? Are there any of the other functions that would be better off
failing instead of aborting?
In its current form it is just about useless for writing generalised
code using it. I am finding that a routine using type gives me more
generic results.
regards
Bruce Rennie.
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