Re: An interesting new ways to do errors

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 22 November 2011 15:42, Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> wrote:
> That errors should be resumable:
> - for warnings: sometimes you just want to ignore them and continue
> - some errors can be recovered with user input
>
> So I had a grand idea: re-implement errors as we know them in lua;
> with coroutines!
>  - error raising functions (such as error and assert) are replaced
> with coroutine.yield
>  - pcall just becomes a wrapper around coroutine.create
>
> I went and made a small library to try it; and it works great!
> https://gist.github.com/1384850
>
> A few problems occured along the way:
>  - varargs + variable length return values are a bitch: so many
> functions! everything has to be a tailcall too; or you blow the stack.
>  - xpcall becomes slightly incompatible with existing handlers: you
> are no longer running in the error'd thread in the error handler: the
> thread that had the error is passed in (and you can use this parameter
> to get information with debug.getinfo()/debug.traceback()/etc
>
> A few realisations came about:
>  - This wasn't only a system for adding resumable errors; it is a good
> way to raise and catch errors overall
>  - You get yielding over pcall boundarys for free
>  - The standard lua error system is no longer needed: adding something
> like this to the standard distribution may really simplify thing: “A
> designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is
> nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”
>
>
> What do you think?
> Would you use something like this in your own code?
> Should the error system as we know it be replaced?
>
> D
>

Sorry guys; realised the wrong code was pasted.
https://gist.github.com/1384850
Second commit was from the wrong file.