From: Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions <guile-user@gnu.org>
To: Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de>,
guile-user <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Exception handling - symbol for encoding exception type?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 14:07:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee3cdzzu.fsf@laura> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18366d41-ee52-9122-997e-cd18b04ece3f@posteo.de>
On Tue, 08 Mar 2022, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> wrote:
> I think in some other languages this would be encoded in
> the type or class or the exception itself. One would catch
> only exceptions of a specific type. This is a convention
> inside the code, which does not necessarily spread to other
> programs or code bases.
I would almost always make a type if the exception can be handled by
user code. For internal raise/catch, not necessary. This is also
better for testing purpose with srfi-64 `test-error` where you can
specify the error type.
--
Olivier Dion
Polymtl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-08 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-08 17:11 Exception handling - symbol for encoding exception type? Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-03-08 17:48 ` Vivien Kraus
2022-03-08 18:18 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-08 18:20 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-07 21:39 ` Zelphir Kaltstahl
2022-03-08 18:22 ` Maxime Devos
2022-03-08 19:07 ` Olivier Dion via General Guile related discussions [this message]
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