Re: try..catch for Lua 5.2?

[Ryan Pusztai <rpusztai@...>]

I think this would be a great addition to the language. Please consider this as a new language addition and not just a MetaLua extension. Thoughts?
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Regards,
Ryan

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> On Sep 11, 2010 6:00 AM, "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> This has certainly been discussed before, e.g a patch:
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> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-01/msg00654.html
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> and also by Metalua, etc.
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> We have a perfectly decent exception mechanism, but it is awkward to
> use. So could at least we have some syntactical sugar over the pcall
> mechanism?
>
> steve d.