On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:02 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> Hi folks: First of all I have to say I am pretty sad that error  
> handling hasn't a special place in the PBE. In my opinion having a  
> good error handling is a MUST in every piece of code. We need to use  
> exceptions. I didn't collaborate at all with PBE so I cannot say  
> anything to no one :)   I will try to write something for the next  
> version if you want. But first...


there is a chapter for the volume two. It is already written and was  
rewritten we will release it in the future for making the unpatient  
happy.

> We need a better error handling. It is very common to have a  
> hierarchy of exceptions or errors. You have subclasses of Error for  
> example. And many times, you want to do or not to do or even do  
> something different depending on the error you got. Now, the  
> question is, how you do this in Squeak ???


have a look at the Exceptions test because they encode the rich  
exception mechanism of Smalltalk.
I could send the exception chapter too :)

>
> This is the only (ugly) way I find to do it:
>
> [ a block of code where you do something that can singal different  
> exceptions  ]
>      on: XXXErrror do: [ : ex  |  ex class = XXXError if True: [ 'I  
> do what I need to do when I get the error XXX' ].
>                                           ex class = YYYError if  
> True: [ 'I do what I need to do when I get the error YYY' ].
>                                           'here I do in the rest of  
> the cases'
>   ]
>
>
> But, I would like to have something like this:
>
>
> [ a block of code where you do something that can singal different  
> exceptions  ]
>     on: XXXError
>         do: [ : ex | 'I do what I need to do when I get the error  
> XXX' ]
>     on: YYYError
>         do: [ : ex | 'I do what I need to do when I get the error  
> YYY' ]
>     on: Error
>         do: [ : ex |  'here I do in the rest of the cases' ]
>     ensure: [ 'Here I do what I always need to do, no matter if  
> there is an error or not' ]
>
>
> What do you think about this? does someone ever did something like  
> this ? perhaps we can put this as part of 1.1
>
> I listen opinions.
>
> Best,
>
> Mariano
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