try & error?

[Mark Scandariato]

Thanks! I just tried it in a compiled module and it works as advertised.

Richard Carlsson wrote:
> 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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