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From: Tim Brown <tim.brown@cityc.co.uk>
Subject: I can't seem to get throw/catch to work
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:18:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F27A99E.8070903@cityc.co.uk> (raw)

I'm just starting to get up and running with guile (and scheme).

I'm trying to write a C extension which (eventually) will throw an
exception/error back to guile. I cannot catch an error generated with
scm_throw(). More importantly I can't seem to throw and error within
guile and catch it myself.

guile> (catch #t (throw 'foo) (lambda (key . args) (display key) (newline)))
<unnamed port>:1:11: In procedure gsubr-apply in expression (throw 
(quote foo)):
<unnamed port>:1:11: unhandled-exception: foo
ABORT: (misc-error)

Type "(backtrace)" to get more information or "(debug)" to enter the 
debugger.
guile>

Ok, so that's me throwing my own error to myself. But I can't even catch
an exception generated by guile.

Neither generally, using the (catch #t ...) nor specifically, using
(catch 'numerical-overflow ...):

guile> (catch #t (/ 1 0) (lambda (key . args) (display key) (newline)))
<unnamed port>:2:11: In procedure / in expression (/ 1 0):
<unnamed port>:2:11: Numerical overflow
ABORT: (numerical-overflow)
guile> (catch 'numerical-overflow (/ 1 0) (lambda (key . args) (display 
key) (newline)))
<unnamed port>:3:28: In procedure / in expression (/ 1 0):
<unnamed port>:3:28: Numerical overflow
ABORT: (numerical-overflow)
guile> (version)
"1.6.4"

This happens on linux, solaris and hpux builds, so I assume there's a
problem with my use of the language rather than anything else.

What am I missing here?

Tim

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             reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30 11:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-30 11:18 Tim Brown [this message]
2003-07-30 14:45 ` I can't seem to get throw/catch to work Peter S. Christopher
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2003-07-30 14:22  Dirk Eßer 

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