Re: errors and their keywords and where catch can return toandst uff like that

2000-08-15 Thread Graham Barr
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:15:21PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: At 08:56 PM 8/14/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote: consider this: try { may_throw_1; } catch { may_throw_2; } catch { may_throw_3; } finally { may_throw_4; } That's either a syntax error or a no-op.

Re: RFC 63 (v3) Exception handling syntax

2000-08-15 Thread Chaim Frenkel
"PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PRL RFC 80 proposes standard exception classes and methods for core exceptions. PRL This RFC doesn't need to repeat those, but it can expound upon the PRL semantics that exception classes ought to have. Assume wlog that they PRL all

Unify the Exception and Error Message RFCs?

2000-08-15 Thread Steve Simmons
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:35:06PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: 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 :-) Well yes, but they represent three authors with (as best I can tell)

Re: Exceptions and Objects

2000-08-15 Thread Piers Cawley
Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: Could be. I'd be interested in seeing non-OOP proposals that do what I want exceptions to do, I have a hard time imagining one. Well, what is it that you want exceptions to do?