[erlang-questions] wanted: example of try/catch

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Section 6.19 in the Reference Manual describes try/catch.

/Bjorn

Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> writes:

> greetings,
> 
> i am trying to use try/catch. the documentatin i have is the EUC 2004 
> paper ''Erlang's exception handling revisited''. it has lead me to 
> belive that this super simple example should produce 'kalle' in the 
> erlang shell:
> 
> try false = true catch Error -> kalle end.
> 
> it does not. i get:
> ** exited: {{badmatch,true},[{erl_eval,expr,3}]} **
> 
> 
> is there an alternative reading to ''Erlang's exception handling 
> revisited''?
> or is there a simple explanation as to why my example does not work?
> 
> 
> bengt
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB