Jonathan Leto wrote:
I am talkign to Perry at PDX Hackathon, and the example code that does
not work should be:
.include 'errors.pasm'
.sub main :main ### :pedantic_args
.param string argv :slurpy
errorson .PARROT_ERRORS_GLOBALS_FLAG
push_eh myhandler
$P0 = find_name "i_better_not_exist_or_this_thing_is_crazy"
pop_eh
if null $P0 goto wasnull
say "not null, must have existed somehow. inconceivable!"
exit 1
wasnull:
say "was null. not good!"
exit 2
myhandler:
pop_eh
say "generated exception. excellent!"
exit 0
.end
Note that errors.pasm had to be included, errorson does not have
parens and a few pop_eh's need to be sprinkled in.
Many Parrot ops return null when things aren't found (e.g.
get_hll_global). My preference would be to keep this op doing that by
default rather than throwing exceptions by default, since while it's
cheap for a language that wants an exception to say "is it null" and
throw one, it's more expensive for those that don't want one (quite
common) to catch the exception and do some kind of auto-vivification.
Maybe the error flags thing could be set up as a way to enable Parrot to
throw the exceptions for you, but...
* The flag has to be checked on a hot path - looking up
variables/functions/etc, so it hurts all languages a little performance
wise, whichever semantics they want.
* Unless there's a way to say what sort of exception to throw, it's
probably not so useful for many languages, since languages will likely
have their own exception classes/types that they want throwing.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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