all messages for Emacs-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ignore-error?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 10:45:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmuhfnysp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d0ib1ku4.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:36:03 +0200")

> But it sure would be nice if we had some way of telling at least some of
> the errors that a function can raise...

We could decide that docstrings should mention which errors
are signal'd, indeed.  Ideally in a standardized format.

> Let's see...  It's this stuff?

Yup.

> The parameter should perhaps also be allowed to be a list of symbols:
>
> (ignore-error (file-error some-other-error)
>   (foo))

Even better,


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-15 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-15 10:29 ignore-error? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 13:08 ` ignore-error? Stefan Monnier
2019-07-15 13:36   ` ignore-error? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-15 14:45     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-07-26  8:08       ` ignore-error? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-26 13:42         ` ignore-error? Stefan Monnier

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=jwvmuhfnysp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
    --to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    --cc=larsi@gnus.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.