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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: R6RS exception printing at the REPL
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:16:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyixulrb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 871v63vhru.fsf@delenn.lan

Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at> writes:

> Fitting that you mention this issue, since I have a question that I
> think also touches this area: what to do with exceptions not caught by
> the REPL (i.e. those leading to program termination when running a
> script)?  My previous patch did not touch them, but I think they should
> be changed as well, as a crash with "guile: uncaught throw to
> r6rs:exception: (#<r6rs:record:&raise-object-wrapper>)" is clearly
> suboptimal.

While I just said I’m skeptical about global exception printers, I agree
that exception printing as in this example should be improved.  So, hmm,
perhaps global exception printers are unavoidable?

Thanks,
Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-01 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-24 21:46 R6RS exception printing at the REPL Andreas Rottmann
2010-11-20 15:23 ` Andy Wingo
2010-11-20 18:18   ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-11-20 20:19     ` Andy Wingo
2010-11-27  0:08       ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-11-29 20:15         ` @ and @@ in r6rs libs [Was: R6RS exception printing at the REPL] Andy Wingo
2010-11-29 22:35           ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-11-29 20:34         ` R6RS exception printing at the REPL Andy Wingo
2010-11-29 23:20           ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-12-01 23:16             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2010-12-01 23:13           ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-12-02 20:21             ` Andreas Rottmann
2010-12-13 16:49               ` Ludovic Courtès

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