Re: AUTOLOAD in terms of throw

Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
> "David L. Nicol" wrote:
>
> > What I was suggesting was, if you want to overload the
> > autoloading of something, it could be done with "catch"
> > instead of rewriting the ::OVERLOAD procedure, for that
> > module.
>
> But none of the currently proposed exception handling/
> reporting mechanisms support any sort of "resume" or "retry"
> functionality... they just extricate you from the current code
> path, and take you to a different place in some equal or
> higher code path.  Now it would be possible to manually code
> the retry in some circumstances, for some errors.  However due
> to the potential for side effects in the invoking expression,
> it may not be possible to do that in general, without language
> support for "resume" or "retry" functionality.

Yes, I believe that to do this correctly you need continuations,
which are beyond the scope of the exception handling RFCs (at
least to date).

Yours, &c, Tony Olekshy