Alexander Schmolck <a.schmolck@[...].net>  writes:

>  Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels@[...].Org> writes:
>  
>  > Calvin Spealman wrote:
>  >> ...
>  >> Have to admit tho, a continue feature might be useful. Some languages have
>  >> this, don't they? The thing is, Where exactly to continue? Should you retry
>  >> whatever raised the exception, continue just after it, at the beginning of
>  >> that line, or what?
>  >>
>  > See this older thread:
>  >    <http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3edd6118%241%40nntp0.pdx.net>
>  >
>  > Xerox's experience (in deliberately removing the "continue from
>  > exception" language feature) I found very instructive.
>  
>  Did this language support working interactively? If so I'd be pretty surprised
>  to hear that no one found it useful to be able to manually fix things and
>  continue execution; not being able to do so is presumably my number one gripe
>  with python [1] -- it annoys me no end if I need to start an expensive
>  computation from scratch because some trivial and easily fixable problem
>  occured towards the end of the computation (sometimes it is possible to
>  salvage stuff by hand by pickling things from the appropriate post-mortem
>  frame, but I'd *much* prefer being able to say: foo=some_value; resume).

I'd like this too.  It might be quite hard to implement
non-disruptively but I haven't thought about it too hard.  Would make
an excellent project for a master's thesis, IMHO.

>  Footnotes: 
>  [1]  Number 2 would be the stupid try: finally: idiom which also seems to
>       screw up tracebacks

?

>       (which has occasionally led me to get rid of them completely
>       while debugging -- surely not a good thinge). My other gripes
>       are again related to python's limitations for interactive
>       software development -- I rather like python, but I really wish
>       it did that better.

What do you mean here, specifically?

I find I can do interactive development in Python most of the time (I
do wish it was more possible with PyObjC, though).

Cheers,
mwh

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