From: Chet Murthy <murthy@pauillac.inria.fr>
To: Christophe Raffalli <cr@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: Judicael.Courant@lip.ens-lyon.fr, caml-list@margaux.inria.fr
Subject: Re: Irrelevant variables in patterns
Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 12:16:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <29270.770120172@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 27 May 1994 18:01:59 -0000. <6498.9405271701@whalsay.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
>>La solution serait plutot de fournir un warning lorsque l'on capture toutes
>>les exception, car cela est un bug dans 99% des cas (on ne veut pas attraper
>>Catch_break ou Out_of_memory en general).
But that doesn't work if I have 10 different exceptions in my program
- I am unwilling to write 10-way branches, as are most programmers.
Exceptions in ML are a programming mechanism. They are not used
anymore for exceptional conditions. We need a new mechanism for that.
--chet--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-05-30 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-05-26 13:03 Judicael Courant
1994-05-27 18:01 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-28 10:16 ` Chet Murthy [this message]
1994-05-28 10:36 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-28 10:43 ` Chet Murthy
1994-05-28 11:01 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-28 11:05 ` Chet Murthy
1994-05-28 11:09 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-28 11:08 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-28 11:12 ` Chet Murthy
1994-05-30 14:49 ` John Harrison
1994-05-30 18:20 ` calla
1994-05-30 8:53 ` Xavier Leroy
1994-05-30 17:57 ` Christophe Raffalli
1994-05-27 18:58 Damien Doligez
1994-05-30 13:15 Judicael Courant
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