V4REV - LiveCode have try-catch already ?? Wow? :-)

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 12/17/11 11:44 AM, "Bernard Devlin" <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, as far as I remember, LiveCode has had Try/Catch/Finally since
> it was Revolution 1.1.1 (which is about 10 years ago) :)   But it
> seems to me that not many people use this feature.  Errors still get
> thrown and get caught by the engine (interpreter) at the final point,
> and displayed in an error dialogue.  But I find it a convenient
> structuring technique so I use try/catch a lot.
> 
> In fact, Livecode also has "throw"
> 
> http://docs.runrev.com/Control-Structure/throw
> 
> open file tFile for text read
> if the result is not empty then
>    throw "failed_to_open_file"
> end if

Ok I see ...

Hmm, not sure this is allowed from external

 
> But the real beauty of Livecode for me is that it is an exceedingly
> late-binding language.  Entire interfaces can be built dynamically,
> and functions/procedures can be built on the fly and applied.

As PHP and ObjC it seems also can ...
Ruby exactly, ... 


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