2009/3/24 Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>:
>> You can validly continue execution from an error (unlike, for example,
>> Java). Sometimes, I'd get an error, fix things up in the debugger and then
>> continue execution.
>
> New image has only one implementation of "error:", and it signals
> non-resumable exception. This contradicts to the behaviour of
> debugger, since pressing Proceed in debugger resumes non-resumable
> exception. So it a bug in Debugger.
> Regarding coding style, if function called do returns some value, then
> it must have some meaning to the caller. I fail to see the meaning of
> receiving non-resumable exception as a result of function call.

It is because, in debugger you can manually force to return from a
context with some value, which you can enter.
Sometimes, if error is not critical, one could decide to continue
running the process w/o stopping it.

> I  think the right way to look at this is to assume, that after signaling
> non resumable exception none of the following method instructions will
> be executed; so caller must not bother checking the result of
> function.
> Vaidotas
>
>



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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.