From: "T. Onoma" <transami@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T20:11:58+09:00
Subject: Re: retry does not work

matz:

> Your "resume" makes exception handling much harder.  With "resume",
> every raise can be re-entered, that means programmers need to care
> about re-entrance always.
> 
> So allowing new thing is not always a good thing.

worry? isn't that what testers are for ;)

okay, so maybe there could be an option put on raise to allow resuming?

just as an example of what this could do: tanaka is adding hook into open_uri to do progress reporting of download. to make it work you have to pass a lambda that acts on progress. but with resume you could raise a ProgressException(pos) and resume, which is much cleaner.

-t0