ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

den2k88

PLEASE NO!! Don't ever utter tha line ever agian, make it forgotten from the whole world. The damages and catastrophes caused by that line are uncountable!

GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

OriginalGriff

The COBOL MOVE statement[^]

MOVE 50 TO discountPercentage

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Ian Shlasko

Best line ever. I think every language should have something like 'On Error Resume Next'. Once I added it, my program stopped crashing entirely! It's like magic! Imagine if we could just apply this to every application worldwide... No more software bugs! (Before you start screaming, note the joke icon... Seriously... I'm crazy, but I'm not an idiot)

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Richard Deeming

You'd have to go a long way to beat the eloquence of this:

$HODOR: hhodor? Hodor!? Hodor!? oHooodorrhodor orHodor!? d = HoDoRHoDoR () {
hodor.hod('Hhodor? Hodor!? Hodor!? o HODOR!? orHodor!? d!');
};

hhodor? Hodor!? Hodor!? oHooodorrhodor orHodor!? d();

Hodor Programming Language[^] :-D

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

jeron1

I would go a long way.............to beat the persons who come up with that! :laugh:

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Lost User

The modern version;

catch
{
// all
}

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

stoneyowl2

"IF THEN MAYBE", "DO SOMETHING" and "GO SOMEWHERE" have always had a special place in my heart.... MAYBEBOL

Lost User

I like their error-handlers, at least it is honest.

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Richard Deeming

Not quite - the modern version would require wrapping every single statement in its own "Pokémon exception-handling" block. Which would mean splitting all variable declarations from their assignments, since a variable declared inside a try block can't be used outside of that block. Which would also mean giving every variable some sort of default value, either when they're declared, or in the empty catch block for the first line that assigns them. And don't forget to update the properties of the global Err object, in case the user gave any thought to checking for errors on the following line, and didn't just let their code trundle on regardless and destroy the program state / database / computer / world. Having worked with VBScript many years ago, where this was the only form of error handling allowed, it's an horrendous construct. Whoever came up with the idea deserves a good beating with the clue-bat.

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Stephen Hewitt

That's more like ON ERROR BAIL.

Steve

Lost User

Richard Deeming wrote:

Whoever came up with the idea deserves a good beating with the clue-bat.

Probably someone who got paid per LOC.

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

Mark_Wallace

I've worked at places where it's ON ERROR RESUME UPDATE. (You'll have to imagine the accents)

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

kmoorevs

DaveAuld wrote:

just popped into my head

I mumble this when something goes wrong...of course the wife doesn't get it. :laugh: It's the be-all, catch-all of error handling constructs, and not a bad way to approach life sometimes! I can always apply a condition based on Err.Number! :laugh:

"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse

Lost User

break;

The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

Gary Wheeler

ON ERROR FORGET ABOUT IT

from MAYBEBOL seems to be most directly in the spirit of the OP.

Software Zen: delete this;

Ryan Peden

I like INTERCAL's ABSTAIN. You get statements like:

PLEASE ABSTAIN FROM CALCULATING

Also, to exit the program, you use:

PLEASE GIVE UP

The PLEASE is optional. If you don't use it enough, through, the compiler will reject your program for not being polite enough. You do have to be careful with it: using PLEASE too often will get your program rejected for excessive politeness.

OriginalGriff

You hold 'im, I'll hit 'im. Then we can swap places. Repeatedly.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

ZurdoDev

The only people who complain about this statement are the same ones who didn't know how to use it properly. :-\

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

Richard Deeming

The only way to use On Error Resume Next properly is to never use it. :)

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Nagy Vilmos

Just about any COBOL will fit that, `ADD 1 TO COUNT` for instance.

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