Re: What's new in 2.5?
>>This would help implementing default routine params, for instance.
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> You lost me. Care to elaborate?
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A routine whose arglist might need runtime adjustment would be monitored, and
somme action taken if needed, like:
- if an atom x appears where a sequence is expected,, replace by whatever is
appropriate, often {x}
- if some parm(s) are missing, give them some predefined values.
etc
Of course, the gook has to be programmed, just like a hook handler in Wondows.
And it might be shared by various routines, and a routine may not have the
same handler alwaus, etc.
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>>>Bottom line: you are right, as long as the handler can resume program
>>>execution. And I'm afraid I read posts in the opposite direction by RC.
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> I've already publicly said RC should concentrate on a simple final
> exception handler to allow some degree of cleanup before the program
> terminates (not that I've tried the win32lib thing), before launching
> into full-blown structured exception handling, which is complicated.
>
> Regards,
> Pete
The 2.5 final cleanup handler IS needed and solves some real problems, but not
the ones I'm most concerned with.
CChris
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