From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is this (error (error ...)) form intentional?
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 08:19:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oaaairrx.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737rmg3sz.fsf@mbork.pl> (Marcin Borkowski's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:28:12 +0100")
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> From org.el:
>
> (defun org-back-to-heading (&optional invisible-ok)
> "Call `outline-back-to-heading', but provide a better error message."
> (condition-case nil
> (outline-back-to-heading invisible-ok)
> (error (error "Before first headline at position %d in buffer %s"
> (point) (current-buffer)))))
>
> Frankly, I don't see the point of nesting `error'.
One is matching the signaled error, and the other is re-throwing the
error with position and buffer information included.
--
Kyle
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2016-03-19 10:28 Is this (error (error ...)) form intentional? Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-19 12:19 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
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