(patch for Bash) try-block and exception

[William Park]

(crossposted to comp.lang.pytho n, because this may be of interest to
them.)

Python has try-block, within which you can raise exception. Once it's
raised, execution breaks out of the try-block and is caught at the end
of try-block.

Now, Bash has similiar feature. I've added try-block and 'raise'
builtin into Bash-3.0. Typical usage would go something like
try
echo a
raise
echo b
done
or
try
echo a
raise 2
echo b
done in
0) echo okey ;;
1) echo raised 1 ;;
2) echo raised 2 ;;
*) echo really bad ;;
esac

The exception is positive integer and is raised by 'raise' builtin, just
like 'break' for the for/while/until loops. And, it can be caught by
using optional case-like statement.

Ref:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/

help try
help raise

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[William Park]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

In <comp.unix.shel l> William Park <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> (crossposted to comp.lang.pytho n, because this may be of interest to
> them.)
>
> Python has try-block, within which you can raise exception. Once it's
> raised, execution breaks out of the try-block and is caught at the end
> of try-block.
>
> Now, Bash has similiar feature. I've added try-block and 'raise'
> builtin into Bash-3.0. Typical usage would go something like
> try
> echo a
> raise
> echo b
> done
> or
> try
> echo a
> raise 2
> echo b
> done in
> 0) echo okey ;;
> 1) echo raised 1 ;;
> 2) echo raised 2 ;;
> *) echo really bad ;;
> esac[/color]

Typo... I pasted an old example. No globbing or any shell expansion is
done.
try
echo a
raise 2
echo b
done in
0) echo okey ;;
1) echo raised 1 ;;
2) echo raised 2 ;;
esac
[color=blue]
>
> The exception is positive integer and is raised by 'raise' builtin, just
> like 'break' for the for/while/until loops. And, it can be caught by
> using optional case-like statement.
>
> Ref:
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
> help try
> help raise[/color]

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[Harry Putnam]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

William Park <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca> writes:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Ref:
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
>> help try
>> help raise[/color][/color]

This link doesn't appear to lead to a `download' option..

[William Park]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

In <comp.lang.pyth on> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy .com> wrote:[color=blue]
> William Park <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca> writes:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> Ref:
> >> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
> >> help try
> >> help raise[/color][/color]
>
> This link doesn't appear to lead to a `download' option..[/color]

It's two step dance.
first, http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/
then, http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/index.html#bash (homepage)
then, http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/bash.diff

Next feature I'll tackle is list comprehension. :-)

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[Kenny McCormack]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

In article <2n3jliFrvv9dU1 @uni-berlin.de>,
William Park <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca> wrote:
....[color=blue]
>Next feature I'll tackle is list comprehension. :-)[/color]

Are you saying that you don't understand how lists work?
If so, post an item here - I'm sure people will be more than willing to help.

[Greg Ewing]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

William Park wrote:[color=blue]
> try
> echo a
> raise 2
> echo b
> done in
> 0) echo okey ;;
> 1) echo raised 1 ;;
> 2) echo raised 2 ;;
> *) echo really bad ;;
> esac[/color]

try...done...es ac? What a delightfully eclectic combination
of syntax. :-)

Why doesn't it end with 'yrt'?

--
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg

[William Park]

Re: (patch for Bash) try-block and exception

In <comp.unix.shel l> Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.cant erbury.ac.nz> wrote:[color=blue]
> William Park wrote:[color=green]
> > try
> > echo a
> > raise 2
> > echo b
> > done in
> > 0) echo okey ;;
> > 1) echo raised 1 ;;
> > 2) echo raised 2 ;;
> > *) echo really bad ;;
> > esac[/color]
>
> try...done...es ac? What a delightfully eclectic combination
> of syntax. :-)
>
> Why doesn't it end with 'yrt'?[/color]

'try-done' was chosen because it resembles while-loop where you would
break out of; and, '-in-esac' was chosen because it resembles case
statement. Also, I didn't want to introduce too many new keywords.

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@y ahoo.ca>
Toronto, Ontario, Canada