Re: Possible bug

• Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:43:27 PST
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• Cc: "'moocows'" <moo-cows@parc.xerox.com>
• In-reply-to: Ron Stanions's message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:22:36 PST" <01BB1BB6.8F190500@phoenix.clawpaw.com>

Ron Stanions writes:
> I haven't looked in the source but I would guess this is because raise() acts
> like return in the sense that all it does is return an error datatype, and
> isn't a direct error, with or without the debug flag raised.  It doesn't
> actually pass through the normal error handling operations.

This is not true.  Raising an error is very different from returning it; the
latter operation *never* triggers the error-catching constructs `...' and
try...except...endtry.

The expression (raise(E_DIV)) raises that error in *precisely* the same way
that (1/0) does.

	Pavel

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