A simpler thing would be to just have any object that deals with file i/o to return something like an "exit status" on a read or after a write attempt.

As long as we're wishing for stuff, I wish vanilla included the [error] object for proper error handling in abstractions. And a bitwise XOR.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:12 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at> wrote:

On 2015-10-14 12:07, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2015-10-14 09:34, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>> I don't see why [textfile] shouldn't report that to the patch instead of
>> the console.
>
> because it would require a lot of code to be added to all use-cases of
> [ŧextfile] in order to not break the feedback where it is indeed desired
> and needed.

this should have read:
"because it would require code to be added to all uses of [ŧextfile]
where the error is indeed desired and needed."

>
> this *could* be done in a way satisfying to both, if Pd had some kind of
> exception handling.
> however, it doesn't.
>
>
> fgamsdr
> IOhannes
>
>
>

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