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Re: Catching errors from scm_run_hook
Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj-pc.nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> > Greg Badros <gjb@cs.washington.edu> writes:
> >
> > > What is the right, supported way to catch errors when invoking
> > > scm_run_hook?
> >
> > The right thing would be to use scm_internal_catch. Is that too
> > complicated?
>
> Maybe not, if it were well documented. But, I think it's almost always
> the case that the user will want to run hooks catching errors, so that
> common case should have a simpler facility.
I think you should include such a facility in SCWM. If enough
application writers require such a facility, we'll include it in a
later release.