Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: CATCH and THROW Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 23:21:08 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:42537 On Fri, 09 Oct 2015 08:46:50 -0400, Mark Wills wrote: > I'm writing an article on my website about CATCH and THROW > > [...] > > CATCH and THROW > > [...] > > > Many languages do not cater for exceptions at all. Um, what are CATCH and THROW? Why are they needed? That should be explained before ever mentioning an exception. It appears I have to read half of this to find out how CATCH and THROW are implemented, but I still don't know what they're supposed to do by then ... Are these like setjmp and longjmp in C? Or, are they like signal? Rod Pemberton -- Just how many texting and calendar apps does humanity need? Just how many food articles from neurotic millenials do we need?