Re: Goo Nitpicks (condition hierarchy)

[Christopher Armstrong <carmstro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 19:19, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> I know I have more issues, but I can't remember them atm. I'll be
> sending more email. :-)

Ok, another one: I really really really love the fact that goo has a
sane type/class hierarchy, but I think the condition hierarchy sucks.
Having basic `simple-condition' `serious-condition' etc conditions is a
cool idea that I hadn't thought of, but I think it also _really_ needs
more fine-grained conditions, associated with particular operations
(again, like Python has ;-)).


goo/user 2<= (elt (vec) 2)
ERROR: RANGE ERROR #[] 2

IMO, this should throw a "range-error" condition, not just an "error"
condition.

goo/user 3<= ueoa
ERROR: Unbound binding: ueoa

"binding-error".

etc.

Oh, and while I'm staring at the examples: man, that all-caps stuff is
ugly (as well as the formatting of the message). How about "range-error:
<vec> index out of range"? :-)

And, on the subject of contributing: are you going to be opening up your
CVS repository, at least for reading-privelages, any time soon? It'll
make it a lot easier to write and send patches.

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                                Chris Armstrong
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