[squeak-dev] Dead exceptions

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 19:41:34 UTC 2020


Hi Christoph,

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM Thiede, Christoph <
Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> while browsing a bit through our exception framework, I stumbled upon a
> significant number of exception classes for all of which I neither found
> any sender in my Trunk image, nor any subclass:
>
> Abort EndOfStream ExceptionAboutToReturn FontSubstitutionDuringLoading
> NanError UndeclaredVariableReference
>
> So here is my question: Would you agree to deprecate them all? Or could
> any of them still be relevant for non-in-trunk senders? I can prepare a
> changeset if you think we should get rid of them.
>

I would like to see us keep at least EndOfStream. ExceptionAboutToReturn
and Abort can be deleted, not just deprecated.  They're ancient and
obsolete.

> Best,
>
> Christoph
>

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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