PM>> The problem here is the lack of consistency. In some places you have to

 PM>> use 'if (ALLOK)' and in other 'TRY(...)'.



 PE> The previous way involved doing that too???



Did it? I don't remember that far back!



 PE> Anyway, you have to be careful with this way, because the test is BEFORE,

 PE> not after, so if you think you won't bother putting in the last test (for

 PE> func4()), because it won't fail anyway, then you'll screw up!



I hadn't noticed that actually. Certainly a bit of a short comming.



 PE> I was thinking of the possibility of having a TRYB and TRYA, for test

 PE> before and test after.  The test after will involve doing a break, so it

 PE> goes back to the previous way of doing it.  The above method means you

 PE> have to check everything.  If you want to get lazy, then you have to do

 PE> an:



I think you'd be better off trying to find some of the C implementations of
exception handling. Even if you can't find a PD one, you'll at least get
some ideas. Now that you're a Unix person, you show be able to find
something kicking around Internet.





Paul



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