Re: try/catch not swallowing errors

[Daniel Kraft]

Hi mike!

On 13.04.19 21:38, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 17:24:19 +0200, Daniel Kraft wrote:
>> That looks correct to me.  When I do exactly the same (use error() in
>> C++) in an .oct file of mine, it works, though.  That's why I guess it
>> could be related to packages somehow.
> 
> I think it may be more specific than that. Can you try the same example,
> but call 'fload' with an invalid file descriptor? I tried that and the
> error message was suppressed, and shows up with 'lasterror'.
> 
>     try
>       fload (99);
>     catch
>     end_try_catch

Interesting!  For me, that code does indeed also not give an error.

(I originally found this because my real code uses try-catch with fload
to handle EOF conditions.)

Yours,
Daniel

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