Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 329 tcl version of try link is dead in TIP

[Harald O. <har...@el...>]

Hi Trevor,

thank you for the light-speed answer !
For me, a pointer on the wiki is enough.

IMHO the TIP pointer should be corrected, as we try to keep the history.
Maybe, it might be a good idea to include companion documents of docs
also in the fossil repository ?

Thank you,
Harald

Am 19.02.2018 um 11:58 schrieb Trevor Davel (Twylite):
> Hi Harald,
> 
> Fortunately I can respond quite quickly on this as I received a similar
> query a few months back. I can't (easily) supply you with the original
> try-1.tcl, as it is in a backup somewhere from before my web site was
> hacked. But I think I can do better :)
> 
> In early (pre-alpha?) versions of 8.6 the [try] implementation - later
> converted to C & bytecode - was in pure Tcl. DKF took that version and
> put it into tcllib in the 'modules/try' package. Here's a direct link to
> the source code: https://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/artifact/670fcb12e205d925,
> and the tcllib documentation:
> https://core.tcl.tk/tcllib/doc/trunk/embedded/www/tcllib/files/modules/try/tcllib_try.html
> .
> 
> I also have a pure-Tcl implementation in my repository at
> http://dev.crypt.co.za/incubator/doc/trunk/index.wiki (.tm link
> http://dev.crypt.co.za/incubator/artifact/5cfc4eb8edb8766759e00384a76f74aa7e88881c
> ). If I remember correctly, I used this version to develop the initial
> test suite for 8.6 [try], and later adjusted it to match the bytecode
> implementation (which slightly changed how exceptions were chained).
> 
> There is also an implementation at the bottom of
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/21608 , which may be the original try-1.tcl.
> 
> I've updated http://wiki.tcl.tk/8293 ('try') with the statement "TIP
> #329 added try to Tcl 8.6. The tcllib module try provides a
> forward-compatibility implementation of TIP 329 for Tcl 8.5." with
> appropriate links. I'm not sure of the process to update a State=Final TIP?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Trevor
> 
> On 2018/02/19 12:27, Harald Oehlmann wrote:
>> Dear Trevor,
>>
>> thank you for TIP329, the try command.
>>
>> To emulate the try command with TCL 8.5, I wanted to use your tcl-only
>> version referenced in the TIP:
>>
>> http://www.crypt.co.za/pub/try-1.tcl
>>
>> Unfortunately, the link is dead.
>>
>> Couldn't you put a tcl-only version of try onto the wiki and chage the
>> link to it ?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Harald
>>
>