Hi

On 31/10/2011, at 20:16, Aleksander Wabik <[email protected]> wrote:

> My 2 pennies:
> 
>> What about adding a code attribute like [IgnoreException] ? that would 
>> perform better than trycatching
> 
> It seems the most logical option to me. Vala is a language that allows
> ignoring exceptions, and (as far as I remember, it was a while ago when
> I was writing my vala code) it generates code printing warning about
> uncaught exception each time the exception is thrown, but not caught. I
> guess that we should have two solutions (not one or the other, but both
> implemented):
> - command line switch like -Wno-exceptions - it would disable all
>  warnings about uncaught exceptions at the compile time, and in the
>  non-debug builds it would also cause not generating code for printing
>  exception information if the exception is thrown;

Looks an ugly solution to me. Some of those exceptions are important :)

> - and some code attribute, that could be used in code, if the author is
>  100% sure that in this particular case exception will never be
>  thrown, or that it can be ignored (compile and run time behaviour the
>  same as above).
> 

The option of allowing syntax like 

Try { ... }

Without catch looks good to me, and probably cleaner than adding a code 
attribute.

But i dont know of any lang that does this already.. So maybe its inconsistent


> Both these features have the advantage that no syntax changes in the
> language are needed.
> 
> best regards,
> 
>> On 31/10/2011, at 10:06, Xavier Bestel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 11:04 -0400, Sam Wilson wrote:
>>>> Perhaps a better way to do this is like this:
>>>> 
>>>> string[] test = new string[3];
>>>> for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
>>>> {
>>>>    try
>>>>    {
>>>>        test[i] = kf.get_string(group, key);
>>>>    }
>>>>    catch (KeyFile.Error error)
>>>>    {
>>>>        // Do nothing
>>>>    }
>>>> }
>>>> if (!test[0] && !test[1] && !test[3]) return false;
>>>> 
>>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> Won't that interrupt the execution flow, i.e. if the first
>>> g_key_file_get_string() throws an exception, the other ones won't be
>>> executed ?
>>> 
>>>   Xav
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