try & error?

[Richard Carlsson]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Mark Scandariato wrote:

> The manual says that erlang:error/1,2 produces exceptions of class
> 'error', but it doesn't seem to:
>
> 1> Tst = fun(F) ->
> 1>     try F()
> 1>     catch
> 1>         throw:T -> {'THROW', T};
> 1>         error:R -> {'ERROR', R};
> 1>         exit:R  -> {'EXIT', R}
> 1>     end
> 1> end.
> #Fun<erl_eval.6.72228031>
>
> Am I doing something wrong?

Not really, but your fun-expression is not compiled,
it is interpreted. And the interpreter apparently does
not yet distinguish properly between exits and errors.

(For bootstrapping reasons, the OTP folks want to be
able to compile most of the system with the previous
major release, and using try-expressions inside the R10
libraries would mean they cannot compile it with R9.
Although it might be possible to do something about
this particular case in the coming R10-1, there will
probably always be some "nonstandard" behaviour in
interpreted code until the R11 major release.)

	/Richard


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