Le 20 déc. 2012 à 00:31, John J Barton <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: >> John J Barton wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Brandon Benvie <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> The magical quality that throw has is its ability to end multiple >>> call frames at once. Much like a second continuation channel, or >>> the error channel in a promise, it escapes past any number of >>> listeners on the normal channel, only stopping at the first >>> listener on the error channel. >>> >>> >>> Well said: it's always possible to argue for 'goto' in specific cases. With >>> experience we've learned that these seemingly sensible features have >>> debilitating system effects. >> >> Which sensible features do you mean? Termination-style exception handling, >> meaning 'throw'? > > goto, and similar control transfers. 'throw' has proven to be a useful > exception ... because we use it for exceptions. With goto, you need (1) to know where to go, and (2) to pick a label name and put it at two possibly distant places. With throw/catch, you don't; therefore I think that throw/catch is superior (where it is possible to replace goto by throw/catch, which I think is most of the time). Throw/catch is useful for exceptions, it doesn't mean that such a mechanism could not have other legitimate uses. I think that we are not accustomed to use it for anything else than exceptions in everyday code, because we don't often need it and we generally find a workaround. StopIteration is IMHO a nice example of a good use of throwing a non-error: The iterator is asked for the next value, but there is none, so it throws (but it is not an error), and the execution resume where it should (e.g. after a for/of loop or at some place manually identified by a catch clause), without the need to add some branching statement at every place the iterator is invoked. Claude
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