Python and Flaming Thunder

[Duncan Booth]

Dave Parker <daveparker at flamingthunder.com> wrote:

> Catch doesn't return just error types or numbers, it can return any
> object returned by the statements that are being caught; catch doesn't
> care what type they are.  For example:
> 
>   Writeline catch(set x to "hello world".).
> 
> will write "hello world".

I really don't get this. Surely the point about an error being thrown to a 
catch statement is that the error path is separate from the normal 
execution path? What you are doing here is ensuring that unexpected errors 
have no chance at all of propagating up to the top level: they are 
invariably going to get caught by some other handler that was installed 
just because someone was too lazy to write a set statement followed by a 
writeline.

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com