A reply by Vesa Karvonen to the following blog post http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2009/01/05/abstracting-away-from-exceptions
Karvonen has convinced me that I was mistaken in thinking that adverse (::) fits the condition-system model of error handling. "the Adverse function is basically just an expression level try-catch. It can definitely be syntactically convenient in a language that distinguishes between statements and expressions and only provides a try-catch statement, but it really doesn't bring anything fundamentally new to the table." He also notes benefits that are specific to handling error at the expression level. Tracy On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Tracy Harms <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems to me that Adverse (::) constitutes a condition system > technique for error handling. If anybody thinks this is not the case, > or that something beyond Adverse need be incorporated to count as "a > condition system" I'm interested to hear your comments. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling#Condition_systems > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
