Re: Eval Exception Error Trapping

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

John Hall wrote:
>Hans have you looked at how Delphi traps errors.
>
>Try
>  ...
>except
>  ...
>end;
>
>or
>
>Try
> ....
>finally
> ....
>end;
>
>The latter is used when you know you need to do something regardless of
>an error condition or not.

As I understand the "finally" clause, the only real benefit from
that is it defines some code which is guaranteed to run even if
there is a return from the "catch" clause.  Without such a clause,
the functionality can be simulated easily enough anyways.

>
>The "on-error 103" statement - does that mean that you will trap error #
>103 and no others ?

Yes.

>
>I hope you can set it up like cl so you can trap one, some, all
>exceptions.

Yes.  The on-error statement takes a list of RPG status codes.
You can monitor for any RPG error/exception code, plus *FILE,
*PROGRAM, and *ALL.  I believe leaving the list blank defaults
to *ALL.  Also, you can have several ON-ERROR sections within
one MONITOR group so you can handle different exceptions
differently if you want.

>
>Also it would be nice to be able to raise the exception (so that normal
>error handling could take place if that is more appropriate (as if no
>monitoring was in place).

We're not planning any special syntax in RPG for signalling
exceptions.

>
>I am really looking forward to the improvements you guys are doing to
>the language

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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