[ANN] V4RB 2.0b2

[Charles Yeomans]

On May 18, 2004, at 3:55 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:

> On 5/18/04 9:16 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rualan, don't be shy. We're ready for 2.0b3. :->
>
> :-)
>
> Today I have improve example 3.
>
> And have spend half of day on strange glitch in CW linking.
> Now I have guess why it was.
>
> I want tomorrow implement Exceptions for V4RB.
>
> ---
> Also we need discuss exceptions.
>
> Old code from V4RB 1.x use other style.
> It do
>
>     command
>     if( db.GetLastError() )
>         ...
>     end if
>
>
> With exceptions code must change.
>
> What you will say guys?
> You ready redo sources for this feature?
>
> Actually we have no other way.
> We MUST switch to new feature of RB language.
>
> I have one hope.
> May be I will be able
>
> A) throw exceptions
>
> B) have flag: do not throw.
>     developers that use EXISTED code, can set it OFF
>     to not break code
>
> C) even if throw exc, db.LastError still will return last erro code.

Some code should still be broken.  For instance, VDatabase.Create and 
Open should be subroutines that either succeed or return an exception.

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Charles Yeomans