[Cuis-dev] [Ann] Refinements to Exception handling

[Phil B]

It looks like we have at least some changes in the core image to resolve.
World menu->Save as... now fails.  Has a scan of the image been done to
identify where these cases might be buried?

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:48 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Some time ago, Andrés (with just a tad of help from me) fixed a problem
> in Exception handling. If exception handler blocks do non-local return
> (^stuff), they will skip execution of part of the Exception handling
> system code, breaking exception return values and possibly other 'bad
> things'.
>
> I just pushed to GitHub a few updates with this work. Now, if an
> exception handler does a non-local return, an Error will be raised. We
> also fixed a couple of places in the image where this was being done.
> BaseImageTests pass.
>
> This updates have some risk of breaking your code. If you you get this
> error: 'Exception handler blocks must not do non local returns', then
> you need to adjust your code. See updates #3917 to #3922 for the changes
> done to the base image.
>
> Thanks,
>
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