Re: [Caml-list] assert caught by try with _

[james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>]

On Wednesday, Jul 30, 2003, at 03:22 US/Pacific, Yaron M. Minsky wrote:
>
> Not so fast.  I have hit the same issue and entirely agree.  In 
> general,
> the issue of making sure that an exception escapes when you want it to
> is a bit of a problem, and it would be nice to have some way of dealing
> with this, and not just with asserts.  But certainly asserts should 
> have
> the option for the kind of always-die behavior you're talking about.

let die_unless p s =
	if not p then begin
		Printf.printf "die: %s\n" s;
		flush stdout;
		exit (-1)
	end

Slightly less convenient than assert, but has the effect of dying 
immediately.

For my part, I *like* the behavior of assert and exception the way it 
is.


-- 
j h woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>

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