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<div>> <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px">Warnings are Notifications</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px">Here is a related discussion about that: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><a href="http://forum.world.st/Discussion-Warning-vs-Halt-or-quot-Why-is-a-warning-a-notification-quot-td5106457.html" style="font-size: 10pt">http://forum.world.st/Discussion-Warning-vs-Halt-or-quot-Why-is-a-warning-a-notification-quot-td5106457.html</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class="history_container" type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;">
<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 11.04.2020 16:32:56 schrieb Thiede, Christoph <christoph.thiede@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de>:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
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<p>Hi all! Thank you very much for having this interesting discussion :-)</p>
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<p>> > <span style="font-size: 12pt">-1. :-) Warnings are Notifications,</span></p>
<div>> As are Errors. Right?</div>
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<div>Nope, sorry ;-)</div>
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<div>> <span>The two main use cases of ModificationForbidden present opposite perspectives onto it. For "protection from accidentally modifying a literal in a CompiledMethod", I understand the inclination to make it an Error. However, for the context of db
handling, [#markDirty + #resume] is normal processing, not an "error", and not even exceptional, either, so perhaps this is just a semantic irritation sensitivity on my part.. sorry. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt">> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">But if they want to use ModificationForbidden for a Write Barrier, they'll probably want to extricate it from Error in the handler:</span><br>
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<div>> forbidden resumptionValue: forbidden retryModificationNoResume.</div>
<div>> forbidden resume: forbidden resumptionValue ]</div>
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<div>> do: [ : err | myDbApp logErrorAndNotifyUser ]</div>
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This clarification was very helpful for me. I was not aware of your second use case before.</div>
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In my opinion, we are talking about two completely different use cases for the same exception.</div>
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<b>Literal protection</b> is a low-level error, comparable to out-of-bounds things and primitive failures. You almost never do want to ignore or fix them.</div>
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<b>Write barriers</b> for #markDirty, on the other hand, sound like a domain-specific topic to me that should neither raise an error, nor eventually signal an UnhandledError, but be resumed automatically (unless handled differently) by a #defaultAction that
removes the barrier (and additional handlers could, if desired, turn on some cache or so).</div>
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I have never dealt with Magma or any other DB framework for Smalltalk, but why do you (or would you) use these VM-based mechanisms for a high-level feature? Without knowing any details about your application, personally I would probably design an own exception
(DirtyModification?) for that purpose. This would allow you to clearly distinguish between low-level errors ("whoops, I just made an attempt to change a read-only code literal") and higher-level exceptions (DirtyModification). If we would follow my <a href="http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Kernel-eem-1317-mcz-td5113273.html#a5113433" class="OWAAutoLink">proposal</a> to
raise ModificationForbidden from Object instead of Context, you could also consider to override #modificationForbiddenFor:at:put: in your database objects to raise DirtyModification instead of ModificationForbidden (in the same way as some classes override
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However, focusing again on the literal protection aspect, I still don't see when the current default #resume behavior of ModificationForbidden would be ever helpful. MF >> #resume calls Exception >> #resume: which does nothing more than to return resumptionValue!
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt">Why can't we design MF like the following:</span><br>
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<div>#resume - not possible, will signal IllegalResumeAttempt</div>
<div>#retryModification - retries the modification and returns nothing special</div>
<div>#forceModification: - makes the object to modify writable, retries the modification and, optionally, makes the object read-only again</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt">> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">If we don't want to break things (that are somehow </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">wrong according to contemporary notion), we could make it a Warning in </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">the
Squeak 5.x release stream and turn it into an error with Squeak </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">6.0. That is: make it an Error today in Trunk, but if we would create </span><span style="font-size: 12pt">a 5.4 release, we would have to remember changing
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt">IIRC ModificationForbidden was introduced in 6.0alpha the first time?</span></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Samstag, 11. April 2020 11:16:00<br>
<b>An:</b> Chris Muller; The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Why is ModificationForbidden not an Error?</span>
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In this case we might want specialized subclasses...
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le sam. 11 avr. 2020 à 03:45, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think so, because if you try to use it for something else, it'll get entangled with your application's standard error handling. Regular apps have error handling like:
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<div>and so for the use-case, <i>Protect CompiledMethod Literals from Accidental Modification</i>, inheriting from Error will allow the best backward compatibility with existing handlers.</div>
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<div>But if they want to use ModificationForbidden for a <i>Write Barrier</i>, they'll probably want to extricate it from Error in the handler:</div>
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<div> [ myDbApp doStuff ]</div>
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<div> forbidden resumptionValue: forbidden retryModificationNoResume.</div>
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<div> do: [ : err | myDbApp logErrorAndNotifyUser ]</div>
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<div>But now that I'm handling ModificationForbidden separately, what if I want <i>Protect CompiledMethod Literals from Accidental Modification</i>, too? I'm no longer handling correctly for that, because the handler has to assume they're signaled in the context
of the DB use case and not the Protection use case.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 12:06 PM tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2020-04-09, at 6:55 PM, Chris Muller <<a href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">asqueaker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The two main use cases of ModificationForbidden present opposite perspectives onto it.<br>
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In that case perhaps we actually need two different signals? <br>
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