From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: "Michaël Le Barbier" <michael.le_barbier@laposte.net>
Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Preferred use of Invalid_argument and Failure
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:06:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471EEF12.60203@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867ildqacq.fsf@Llea.celt.neu>
Michaël Le Barbier wrote:
> I am working on a library, I want the interfaces to look like standard
> library modules interfaces.
...
> Again, I would be glad to get advices of discipline in using
> theses two exceptions. What works for you?
My advice would be not to use these two exceptions and to define custom
exceptions in your library. You'll be able to pattern match on them
more easily and to store extra relevant information. Of course, this
breaks your design constraint of looking like the standard library.
-- Alain
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-24 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 6:45 Michaël Le Barbier
2007-10-24 7:06 ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2007-10-24 8:06 ` [Caml-list] " Xavier Leroy
2007-10-24 11:05 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-10-24 11:30 ` Joel Reymont
2007-10-24 13:15 ` Yaron Minsky
2007-10-24 13:22 ` Daniel Bünzli
2007-10-24 14:45 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-24 15:10 ` Richard Jones
2007-10-24 14:44 ` Jon Harrop
2007-10-25 7:07 ` Michaël Le Barbier
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