Le 19/12/2012 16:38, Claude Pache a écrit :
Le 19 déc. 2012 à 15:32, David Bruant <[email protected]> a écrit :
Le 19/12/2012 14:13, Claude Pache a écrit :
Hello,
In SpiderMonkey (and perhaps other JS engines?), there are conditional catch
clauses:
catch (exception if condition)
Could such a feature added to ECMAScript?
Rationale: Although try/catch mechanism was initially intended for treating
errors, it could be used in normal control flow with non-error condition.
Why not just use normal control flow when you want to express non-error
conditions?
throw/try/catch was indeed intented for treating errors and when I read code, I
expect an error path when encountering a try/catch.
As I've said, iterators throw StopIteration, which may be considered as a
non-error.
I completely agree. I have said elsewhere [1] that StopIteration could
be its own statement. What we want is a way to stop the current call
frame. The language provides 2 such ways, return and throw. Return can't
be used because it may result in ambiguities. It could be the same thing
for throw, but normal use of throw make that throwing a specific object
is an acceptable hack on StopIteration.
And in the code example I've given below, I can't use "normal" control flow to
stop forEach from iterating over the remaining values, but throwing works fine.
The problem lies in the "bad" forEach design. Arguably every/some may be
more what you want if stopping after some element is a normal thing in
your program.
It's barely more hacky.
Arguably, you could create a different array and apply forEach on this
secondary with .filter.forEach. This may have some performance issue.
In any case, that's more of a hack than an actual throw.
David
[1] https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-November/026639.html
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