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- Subject: Re: try..catch for Lua 5.2?
- From: Mark Hamburg <mark@...>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:28:15 -0700
On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Duncan Cross wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:09 PM, HyperHacker <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just want to add my +1 vote. Some sugar around pcall and error for
>> exception handling would make a lot of messy code neater.
>
> One thing is that people would expect 'break' and 'return' to work
> inside a try block, which makes the sugar required significantly more
> complicated than you might expect at first glance.
These are also the thing that make lightweight or middleweight (if lightweight just supports expressions) function syntaxes fail.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=165578&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=101653558&CFTOKEN=71527094
Mark
