Because the tenth time you write that code in a program, you get the naggin feeling that you're duplicating code...

/ Mirar

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2003-12-08 11:32: Subject: call_callback

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Unlike callouts a custom function can return values which need further processing. Some values may indicate error conditions, and it's also not necessarily so that exceptions should be logged using werror().

I can't see what's wrong in using

if (mixed err = catch { res = f(1, 2, 3, ...); }) werror(describe_backtrace(err));

directly? However, if you feel that qualifies as an addition in Function.pmod I won't stop you, but I won't use it either.

/ Jonas Walldén

Well, since I'm writing stuff for Pikes framework *anyway*, it seems silly to have for instance

Protocols.A_Protocol.Supportstuff.call_callback and Protocols.Another_Protocol.Supportstuff.call_callback and Some.Other.Library.With.Callbacks.Supportstuff.call_callback

that does exactly the same. ;)

/ Mirar

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2003-12-08 11:40: Subject: call_callback

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Well, duplicating the same statement ten times is one extreme, and adding it to the Pike language framework is another. Somewhere in between there's a concept of user-level functions, right? :-)

/ Jonas Walldén