Hello Julian,

comments below...

On 15-Nov-00, you wrote:

> Hello Mat,
> 
>> IH> if error? set/any error try [ 0/0 ] [
>> IH>   error: disarm error
>> IH>   print [ "Now you can savely work with: " mold error]
>> IH> ]
>> 
>> This doesn't actually work though? Using true to force error to return
>> works though. (so I'm happy!) This just blows out with the actual error and fails to
>> trap it at all.
> 
> There are two problems with this piece of code.  First, the error that
> occurs is a syntax error ('0/0' is an invalid date, '0 / 0' is an
> attempt to divide by zero, notice the space).  And it appears you can't
> trap syntax errors -

Well, it's tricky at least.
The problem is that the error is triggered before the code is even executed.

compare:

## do "error? try [0/0]"  
** Syntax Error: Invalid date -- 0/0.
** Where: (line 1) error? try [0/0]

to:

## error? try [do "0/0"]  
== true


>>> error? try [0 / 0]
> == true
>>> error? try [0/0]
> ** Syntax Error: Invalid date -- 0/0.
> ** Where: (line 1) error? try [0/0]



-- snip --

> 
> Julian Kinraid

Best regards
Thomas Jensen


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