ON ERROR RESUME NEXT
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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
tryblock 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 emptycatchblock for the first line that assigns them. And don't forget to update the properties of the globalErrobject, 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
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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I've worked at places where it's ON ERROR RESUME UPDATE. (You'll have to imagine the accents)
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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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
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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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.
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"IF THEN MAYBE", "DO SOMETHING" and "GO SOMEWHERE" have always had a special place in my heart.... MAYBEBOL
ON ERROR FORGET ABOUT IT
from MAYBEBOL seems to be most directly in the spirit of the OP.
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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I like INTERCAL's
ABSTAIN.You get statements like:PLEASE ABSTAIN FROM CALCULATING
Also, to exit the program, you use:
PLEASE GIVE UP
The
PLEASEis 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: usingPLEASEtoo often will get your program rejected for excessive politeness. -
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
tryblock 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 emptycatchblock for the first line that assigns them. And don't forget to update the properties of the globalErrobject, 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
You hold 'im, I'll hit 'im. Then we can swap places. Repeatedly.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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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.
The only way to use
On Error Resume Nextproperly 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
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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Just about any COBOL will fit that, `ADD 1 TO COUNT` for instance.
veni bibi saltavi
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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
Richard Deeming wrote:
That would be funnier if it didn't look almost exactly like a lot of the Java code I've had to manage.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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
tryblock 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 emptycatchblock for the first line that assigns them. And don't forget to update the properties of the globalErrobject, 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
Richard Deeming wrote:
he 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
tryblock 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 emptycatchblock for the first line that assigns them. And don't forget to update the properties of the globalErrobject, 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 / worldAh! Now I understand why you love VB so much!
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The only way to use
On Error Resume Nextproperly 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
Not the best War Games paraphrase I've ever seen, but it'll do.
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Just about any COBOL will fit that, `ADD 1 TO COUNT` for instance.
veni bibi saltavi
Well,
PERFORM sthg VARYING FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL COUNT > 5could do with a little work, but your point is still 90% valid.I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I like INTERCAL's
ABSTAIN.You get statements like:PLEASE ABSTAIN FROM CALCULATING
Also, to exit the program, you use:
PLEASE GIVE UP
The
PLEASEis 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: usingPLEASEtoo often will get your program rejected for excessive politeness.Does it have private and public statements, too? e.g:
PRIVATE PLEASE SHAKE_IT_BABY
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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Common Lisp's loop macro can be pretty interesting. It lets you do things like:
(loop for i in *random*
counting (evenp i) into evens
counting (oddp i) into odds
summing i into total
maximizing i into max
minimizing i into min
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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Bloody hell, nobody mentioned GOTO or even GOSUB. It may not be error handling bit it was/is almost as abused as RESUME NEXT. There were some doozies in the Lotus 123 macro language as well but I can't remember them. And did you ever look under the hood of early Lotus Notes, now there was a whole collection of nightmares!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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For some reason, that just popped into my head.......I wasn't even looking at anything code related, was watching the "Couch Commander" video :laugh: Anyway, the question is are there any other "statements" such as the one in the subject' in any other programming language that so eloquently and succinctly tell you exactly what it's doing.......? The more obscure the language the better. And if anyone says this is a programming question, which it is, but it's not, will get a skelped dock!
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I actually used the MUMPS language when I did a contract for the VA. No reserved word, since everything was by context: This was actually legal MUMPS code, since all things could be shortened to the first letter: GREPTHIS() N S,N,T,I,K,Q S I="K",S="11",K="l1",Q="R",T="K" I I=T D T Q:$Q Q Q T I I,S&K S S=S+K Q The full blown statements weren't much better: GREPTHIS() NEW SET,NEW,THEN,IF,KILL,QUIT SET IF="KILL",SET="11",KILL="l1",QUIT="RETURN",THEN="KILL" IF IF=THEN DO THEN QUIT:$QUIT QUIT QUIT ; (quit) THEN IF IF,SET&KILL SET SET=SET+KILL QUIT Just to put history behind it, MUMPS was the "Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System", and (colloquially) was designed by doctors.
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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
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catch (Exception) {}? I pretty much like my catches, so I'll keep using those thank you :) If I couldn't use lines of code, functions, or libraries whose usage has made me cringe in the past I should really find another job. I've seen things :sigh:Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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catch (Exception) {}? I pretty much like my catches, so I'll keep using those thank you :) If I couldn't use lines of code, functions, or libraries whose usage has made me cringe in the past I should really find another job. I've seen things :sigh:Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
It dones't mean they don't have to be used - I use this one too (Yes, I still work with VB6) - but it would be way better to forget them at all. The problems caused by those lines after years they have been developed... basically unfindable bugs because the sucker acts like there is no problem at all. Add this to the fact that the runtimes throws exceptions like candies instead of returning a status value and you have to manage exceptions for perfectly reasonable beahviours, like opening a non existing file. It can happen, it's usually no big deRUNTIME ERROR! CLOSE THE HATCHES! PREPARE FOR IMMERSION NOW!!! So many times you simply stick to On Error Resume Next and then problems arise, after years of seemingly fine running. It's like having a bazooka for home defence. Effective it is, useful also, but it's farking dangerous.
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
