... am i programming too much in a functional style, or do you others use := much more often than =, too? i always find it a little bit annoying having to use ...
Daniel Wunsch
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Jan 1, 2006 8:36 am
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... Generally speaking, I use = a lot more often. I use := to make the slots on what I intend to use as a prototype, and then use only = after cloning it to...
John Nowak
john@...
Jan 1, 2006 1:11 pm
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Nice. I think it would be useful to have this (List fold) in the distro. Jason...
... Not unless you can read my mind. I haven't said it because I'm not sure, but I've been wondering. Exceptions are great because they allow you to handle...
... I don't have a strong opinion about exceptions myself, but I do think that the above point provides support for Steve's suggestion that we not try to...
I've followed the very interesting threads about error handling in Io and the status of the exceptions. I profited quite a lot especially of the suggestions of...
... Which suggestion was that? Exceptions are already in the language. The only suggestion Steve made recently about exceptions that I'm aware of was about...
Hi, ... Slate (http://slate.tunes.org/) offers an example of such low-level syntax. It's VM it is written in a slate subset called Pidgin which can be directly...
I know I'm coming in late in this thread, and I apologize for not reading every message in it in advance. I may be stating something that was mentioned...
... This is obviously a stylistic call, but I'm sure you'd find plenty of people who don't think a priori that exceptions are syntactically ugly at a high...
... Well, I wasn't talking about what people were thinking, I was talking about what they were suggesting ... :-). -- Erik Max Francis && max@... &&...
... Perhaps this is a nonsense request, but I'd like to have Steve come out and give his current opinion on this. It seems almost everyone here feels...
John Nowak
john@...
Jan 2, 2006 6:10 am
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... In some sense it is, because you have to wrap everything you want to catch inside an explicit try block of some kind. That's extra typing, and from a code...
... Massimiliano, Thanks for the link. What's the direct URL to the Pidgin docs? Btw, my interest is really in a JIT than a C translator - so it can be useful ...
Hi all, Is anyone currently working on an implementation of the SOAP protocol, particularly something mapping Io Objects to SOAP actors? Since SOAP's designed...
... This is more or less what I was suggesting in my post of yesterday regarding Error objects modulo the possibility to turn the error in a "real" exception...
... Fundamentally, whenever an error is possible, we need two independent channels of communication: (1) Value: the method's normal semantic response, and, (2)...
... Steve, a part from the sources themselves, documentation is still poor. AFAIK, the only reference to the C translator is in the docs for the VM: see ...
... But that's not using exception handling, that's using the equivalent of error codes. Exception handling was introduced largely to _remove_ the need for...
... If I understand correctly this dual approach is needed just in the case where the correct return value is an Error itself. If we care to have a simple...
... I see where you are coming from and used to feel the same way, but now I prefer true/false. Some of the motivations were: 1. frustration with having to...
... Just to keep with the thread, I think if a function returns it should be successful, if it isn't successful then it shouldn't return at all. That's the...
... Perhaps I misunderstood you a bit then -- sorry if some of my comments were superfluous or redundant. As I mentioned, Samuel's example looks to me like a...
... I appreciate that, thanks. :) And I'm sorry if I could have explained it better. Hopefully, my latter posts will provide some insight. If not, *please*...
... That's right. And it's fine in ICON, in which one develops a weird (or at least unusual) programming style adapted to the way failure works. It's more...
... Whichever quoting or wrapper we choose will be insufficient, since that object could be the proper value that should be returned, rather than signifying an...
... No, because it's a fundamentally separate channel of communication. The problem is to make using this alternative channel as *effortless* as normal return...
Uugh...it's all about CORBA, that's all I can say. I'm so sick and tired of all this re-invention of the wheel. XML-RPC, SOAP, et. al. -- Samuel A. Falvo II...
