Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Andreas, > >> Great, this would solve the problem. Maybe we then should >> think about a cheap solution, at least for now. E.g. a spe- >> cial object named CurrentUnoException or something like >> that could be provided by Basic in case an UNO exception >> error occurs containing the Exception object. > > +1 > >> This would >> match with the err variable concept and we wouldn't have >> to implement the complete try/catch syntax that isn't >> Basic like anyway. > > Well ... how is "Basic like" defined? By the Basic originally invented > some decades ago, by one of the zillions of Basic dialects out there, or > by what we me make of it? I certainly vote for the latter ... > > We also need, IMO, a "throw". (I think Mathias will agree to me here. > AFAIK, his repeated argueing for exception-less UNO API originates from > his team's experiences with existing API which could not be used in > Basic, since this would have required the script to throw an exception.) > If we would decide to have it, *not* having try/catch would look ... > senseless.
Yes, that's one point. The other point is a missing real "catch" support. The "On error goto" is not sufficient as it doesn't allow to specify where the program should continue in case an exception got caught (except by flooding your code with jump labels and your "exception handlers" with gazillions of Goto statement). If we had a usable exception support in OOo Basic we still can have problems with other languages like e.g. VBA but that might be bearable. I don't know wether our Scripting Framework and the possible scripting languages using it support exceptions. Andreas should know better. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
