[erlang-questions] Old school exceptions vs. new age one

[Hynek Vychodil]

Because you should use:

> try lists:sort(abc) catch error:Why -> io:format("~p~n", [{Why,
erlang:get_stacktrace()}]) end.
{function_clause,[{lists,sort,[abc]},
                  {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
                  {erl_eval,try_clauses,8},
                  {shell,exprs,6},
                  {shell,eval_loop,3}]}
ok

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Maxim Treskin <zerthurd@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hello
>
> According Pragmatic Programming Erlang there is two syntax of exceptions:
> Old-style:
> <pre>
> case (catch foo(...)) of
>    {'EXIT', Why} ->
>        ...
>    Val ->
>       ...
> end
> </pre>
>
> and new-style:
> <pre>
> try foo(...) of
>    Val -> ...
> catch
>    exit: Why ->
>         ...
> end
> </pre>
>
> If I use new-style syntax, I have not detailed exception cause
> explanation, like this:
> <pre>
> 3> try lists:sort([1,2,3]) catch exit:Why -> io:format("~p~n", [Why]) end.
> [1,2,3]
> 4> try lists:sort(abc) catch exit:Why -> io:format("~p~n", [Why]) end.
> ** exception error: function_clause
> </pre>
>
> But if I use old-style syntax, I have this:
> <pre>
> 5> case (catch lists:sort(abc)) of {'EXIT', Why} -> io:format("~p~n",
> [Why]) end.
> {function_clause,[{lists,sort,[abc]},
>                  {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
>                  {erl_eval,expr,5},
>                  {erl_eval,expr,5},
>                  {shell,exprs,6},
>                  {shell,eval_exprs,6},
>                  {shell,eval_loop,3}]}
> ok
> </pre>
>
> Can you say me, why is new-style better than old?
>
> Thank you
>
> --
> Maxim Treskin
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