Re: Towards a reasonable unwinding flow-control semantics.

At 07:10 PM 8/16/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <[email protected]> writes:
>
>PS> 1. When an exception is thrown perl looks for the enclosing try block; if
>PS> there is none then program death ensues.
>
>Err, if there isn't one. Don't throw the exception. Stop processing but
>don't throw. You are imposing a style on your caller.

???  I don't get this at all.

>A message would be appropriate (ala, die or warn)
>
>Also a use (within main or if it can work lexically) that would mean
>die_if_exception_thrown. Would treat the main routine as if it were
>wrapped in a try block that doesn't catch any exceptions.

RFC 63 already states this.  Uncaught exceptions at the outermost level are 
dies.  (And there is a very close relationship between die and throw.)
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies