Anyone else have a problem with this?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Jordan Wilberding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Go for it man.
> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Martin Logan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> same with me, that is what I was going for, and what I have had to
>> replace pmap with for the time being because of the lack of this
>> exception functionality. So if no one else objects then I am going to
>> make the refactoring which will be a major rev over the current api.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Jordan Wilberding <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I think we should emulate the behavior of regular map as much as
>> > possible.
>> > JW
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Martin Logan <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Guys,  pmap needs to pass through exceptions. The implementation will
>> >> be fairly straightforward, anyone against this?
>> >>
>> >> In the do_f function we have the line. I would change this line to
>> >> something like
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>        Parent ! {self(), {error, ErrType, Error}}
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         Parent ! {self(), {'$exception$', ErrType, Error}}
>> >>
>> >> This would be to sufficiently distinguish an exception from a passed
>> >> back error. Right now we autoconvert exceptions into errors which does
>> >> not look quite correct to me. There may be caveats to passing back the
>> >> exception though and that is what I am asking you to think on. Anyhow,
>> >> If this response above comes back into
>> >>
>> >> wait(Parent, Child, Timeout) ->
>> >>    receive
>> >>        {Child, Ret} ->
>> >>            Parent ! {self(), Ret}
>> >>
>> >> which would then be recognized there and passed back to Parent. When
>> >> Parent receives an exception message it would rethrow it. Anyone
>> >> wishing to collect all responses would need to catch exceptions at an
>> >> application level. Exceptions would serve to short circuit the
>> >> execution of any map functions in this way.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Martin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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