From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <448DD819.80503@comtv.ru> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:09:45 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality References: <0243d2031c9594ad7c4d4139dfbd642f@collyer.net> <08E86926-0DE9-4C3E-8D9D-0B4D39956A8C@telus.net> <448DCB8A.6060905@lanl.gov> <20060612202328.GG2588@submarine> <448DD518.2060509@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <448DD518.2060509@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 69a09be4-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: > Roman Shaposhnick wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:16:10PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: >> >>> actually, to repeat my serious question: waserror() and friends in >>> user mode. Crazy, doable, or just plain bad idea? >> >> >> >> Doable. But that'll give you a tool quite similar to the C++ >> exceptions >> (although without the bonus of auto-destruction). What's your plan >> for using this tool in libraries ? > > > I have no plans :-) > > Just wondering. > > auto-destruction: does it involve plastique or just gunpowder? > > ron > auto-destruction seems to be deprecated everywhere. Garbage Collection needs to be implemented in libraries. It's seems to be possible without KenC language modification, but I think it's too expensive and needs massive rewrites and refactoring. -- Victor