From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>, 47677@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47677: [PATCH] condition-case success continuation
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:10:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy2dnczfz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf9nzy48.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:49:11 +0200")
>> 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.
Indeed, a nice sidekick to Mattias's patch would be another patch which
rewrites some of those condition-cases. I know I wrote some of those
but somehow can't remember where, nor can I think of a good way to grep
for them.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-12 15:10 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
2021-04-12 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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