From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: R6RS exception printing at the REPL Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:16:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87tyixulrb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sjzvnu1i.fsf@delenn.lan> <87tyjbkger.fsf@delenn.lan> <87ipzj631y.fsf@delenn.lan> <871v63vhru.fsf@delenn.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291245617 29441 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2010 23:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 23:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 00:20:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvy7-0005Wt-Em for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNvy6-0001QI-Tg for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:20:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47341 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PNvy2-0001Jx-Rs for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvy1-0004GB-Em for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:36231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvy1-0004G4-9D for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:20:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PNvy0-0005Uc-80 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from yoda.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by yoda.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:20:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yoda.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 12 Frimaire an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GHEFEjC+Gn0oZ9eXEuBmhKN9oOw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:11228 Archived-At: Andreas Rottmann 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: (#)" 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’.