I think the answer is probably to pass the *class* of the exception. The default then simply sends the correct #signalWith: message with the file name as an argument.
Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 846-1285 FAX: (352) 392-7029 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/15/08 11:39 AM >>> Alexandre Bergel wrote: > At the first glance readOnlyFileNamed:ifNone: seems to be a useful > primitive. But this having the file absent might be just one case. You > could have ifNotReadable:, ifParentFolderNotReadable:. > Also, an error when writing in a file may occur in many different > situation (disk full, file read only, ...). > You may also want to provide handler for each of these situation (e.g., > writeFileNamed: aName with: stream ifDiskFull: [...] > ifAlreadyExistingFile: [...]... Agree... >> I agree you are improving on the existing code, but I would prefer >> something like >> >> file := fd readOnlyFileNamed:name ifNone:[ ^self ]. a solution would be to pass in any Exception into the ifNone: block: file := fd readOnlyFileNamed:name ifNone:[:ex| ^self ]. Then depending on whether you are actually interested in the exact reason the file couldn't be created you could look at the exception. Michael _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
