ON ERROR RESUME NEXT

[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. :)

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"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.

veni bibi saltavi

[Mark_Wallace]

Richard Deeming wrote:

Hodor Programming Language[^] :-D

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!

[Mark_Wallace]

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 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

Ah! Now I understand why you love VB so much!

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

[Mark_Wallace]

Not the best War Games paraphrase I've ever seen, but it'll do.

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

[Mark_Wallace]

Well, PERFORM sthg VARYING FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL COUNT > 5 could do with a little work, but your point is still 90% valid.

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

[Mark_Wallace]

Does it have private and public statements, too? e.g:

PRIVATE PLEASE SHAKE_IT_BABY

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

[Ryan Peden]

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
finally (return (list min max total evens odds)))

[Mycroft Holmes]

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

[stoneyowl2]

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.

[Sander Rossel]

Like 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:

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Regards, Sander

[den2k88]

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

[Sander Rossel]

Most TrySomething (like TryParse) methods swallow exceptions if you don't check for the return value. The if-statement can be just as harmful. Take those huge nested if-else branches. Impossible to test, impossible to change (without breaking everything). So we replace the if-statements with switch/case-statements, same thing happens. We need to loop through some collection, but it's kind of recursive, and now some programmer uses foreach foreach foreach... (yeah, I've seen it happen). In SQL Server when an exception occurs it's more or less swallowed UNLESS you use try-catch (how many programmers know that?). So I now shouldn't use catch, TryParse, if, switch/case, foreach, and SQL Server :) Well, I agree ON ERROR RESUME NEXT is the most useless of them all :)

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

[den2k88]

You're absolutely right about the huge nested ifs, I usually tend to modularize a lot and where multiple checks are involved I use a SEQUENCE of if and a cumulative status, so that it becomes

bool keep_going = true;
if (error_cond1) keep_going = false;
if (keep_going && error_cond2) keep_going = false;
...

It's easier to read and modify, also it's not mandatory to have a single cumulative status. Since I work with stdcalls, VB6 and plain old C code on old compilers (long story short: we can't change.) I can't reliably use exceptions outside the deepest functions and being the VS6 stdlib what it is I don't really need them since it's better to stick to CRT functions, which don't have exceptions. Being VS6 CRT what it is many "safe" functions that use SEH exceptions do not exist so I don't use them either.

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

[Rob Grainger]

I'd say the If..Then..Else statement is pretty clear, amongst many many others. If anything, your example is a little odd, as it really doesn't tell you what it is doing - resume next what? That's not English. (It's also an extremely dodgy technique of error handling, equivalent of enclosing every statement in:

Exception error;
try {
statement;
}
catch (Exception ex) {
error = ex;
}

Which just invites people not to bother checking the result. May as well have a statement like

On Error Keep Calm and Carry On

"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.