RE: Java and RPG (RE: Catch 'n release MONITOR'd message)

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You would have the same problem whether you were using Java or not, for this
> specific instance anyway.  It is an RPG ILE flaw that you can't easily throw
> your own errors and have the MONITOR block catch it.  Not saying you're
> wrong, Scott, just qualifying your statement some more.

True, but you could design your error reporting so that you don't have to
use MONITOR.

As we've already discussed on this list, MONITOR needs to be further
enhanced for it to be really useful.  The ability to easy/quickly load the
error info into some sort of exception data structure would be nice.  It'd
also be nice if we could easily throw our own errors.

Naturally, we can do those things with APIs, but I think this is stuff
that should be easy to do for the average programmer, since it's something
that everyone needs to be able to do.

Right now, MONITOR gives us very little that we couldn't already do with
%error and %status.