<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:02 AM, Levente Uzonyi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leves@caesar.elte.hu" target="_blank">leves@caesar.elte.hu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5">On Mon, 5 Sep 2016, Chris Muller wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
PS -- I don't care to use ifError: because it doesn't give me access to the Exception object, only its description and receiver. I think it should more closely mirror on: Error do: [ :err | ... ].<br>
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It's too late to change it. It's still useful when you don't care about the error nor the performance of the code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's because ifError: is from Smalltalk 80 and predates Exceptions. The old implementation is actually quite amazing in its simplicity. See implementors of #error: and #ifError: in an old Squeak image, e.g. <a href="http://try.squeak.org/#zip=http://files.squeak.org/1.1/Squeak1.1.zip">http://try.squeak.org/#zip=http://files.squeak.org/1.1/Squeak1.1.zip</a></div><div><br></div><div>- Bert - </div></div></div></div>