[Newbies] Exceptions in Squeak

[Waldemar Schwan]

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> What I wanted was an exception (try/except) in case any of the reads
> failed. Corrupt files are an expected case that should be handled by
> the program. So I can't crash while reading (or writing). Does Squeak
> have exceptions? Or is there a Smalltalk pattern for this "try to
> execute this, do something else if it fails"? That answer should
> probably go into another thread.
>
> David

You may take a look at BlockContext, exception protocoll. BlockContext  
is the class of [ ] .

If you are searching for a try catch, try
	[ self doingThingsThatMayThrowErrors ] on: Error do: [ something ].

example:
	[ Error new signal] on: Error do: [Transcript show: 'error'].


Regards
	Waldemar
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