Re: task model

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>> What's the point of re-raising? Exceptions don't propagate from tasks.
> 
> Uhm, I forgot to mention that a handler at some nesting level
> might be reporting, permitting more accurate diagnostic messages.
> It could then decide there is or is not a possible rescue,
> and accordingly re-raise, for example.

Not an exception handler for the task, then, but for a declare statement within 
the task. In that case, a re-raise might be useful.

However, the primary use I have had for such a structure is to enclose an accept 
statement, allowing an explicitly raised exception to propagate from the accept 
to the caller, while being handled and ignored in the called task.

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Jeff Carter
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