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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 47677@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:49:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf9nzy48.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A9E20D1C-E9ED-49C5-B023-00FBBD024064@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:13:37 +0200")

Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:

> It may be a bit too far over the moon though. Would
> :not-a-complete-failure be better? Fits my gloomy national
> temperaments (all of them) better.

:-)

I like :success here.  Let's bring some positivity.  And I also like
the feature -- you sometimes see people doing

(condition-case
  (progn
    (something-that-may-fail)
    (setq didnt-fail t))
  (error ...))
(when didnt-fail
  ...)

and this would be much nicer.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-12  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-09 20:26 bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-10 23:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-11 11:13   ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-12  8:49     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-04-12 15:10       ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-12 19:20         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-13  7:38           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-13  8:52             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-14  9:29               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-15 13:54                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-16  5:13                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-16  5:13                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-21 14:13                   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-22 13:58                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-23  4:18                       ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-24 17:02                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-25  4:44                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-25  7:35                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-25 18:21                               ` bug#47677: [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-04-25 18:24                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-26  4:40                               ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 12:44                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-27  3:46                                   ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 15:12                           ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-04-27 15:31                             ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-27 19:00                               ` Gregory Heytings
2021-04-29 12:45                               ` Filipp Gunbin
2021-04-25 16:45                       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-04-26 11:53                         ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-04-27  3:46                           ` Richard Stallman
2021-04-26 21:57 ` Gregory Heytings

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