On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:41:22PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Jonathan Leto wrote: > >.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 ...
You're essentially correct that the docs don't match here. In general we don't want find_name to always throw an exception because there are many times that it's valid to look for something that doesn't exist. Jonathan is quite correct that in many of our target languages, the fact that a particular symbol doesn't exist is an indication that it needs to be created, not that an exception should be thrown. There is a "find_sub_not_null" option that has the same semantics as "find_name", but does throw an exception if the requested symbol does not exist. Perhaps this will do what you need. :-) Pm _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
