From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] writing some code using a function for which only the signature is known
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:20:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinyF8RBnDrSfw_5WybH1+QdXeKgNPGZeNTETraO@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295617774936@names.co.uk>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 14:49, <mark@proof-technologies.com> wrote:
> For anything more than toy examples, it's better to use Dmitry's solution of
> a specially defined exception, because you certainly don't want the
> exception to get caught before it reaches the top level, but Assert_failure
> or Failure are liable to get caught if you write code with exception
> handling.
In that case simply use invalid_arg "TODO", Invalid_argument
exceptions should never be catched. This avoids having to define your
own exception.
Best,
Daniel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-21 15:20 UTC|newest]
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2011-01-21 13:49 mark
2011-01-21 15:20 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
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2011-01-21 5:40 Francois Berenger
2011-01-21 5:58 ` oliver
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2011-01-21 6:12 ` dmitry grebeniuk
2011-01-21 15:32 ` oliver
2011-01-21 18:26 ` dmitry grebeniuk
2011-01-21 10:56 ` Arlen Cuss
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