Re: What's the proper way to "reraise" in a CLP?

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/19/2017 6:10 PM, John Yeung wrote:

I specifically asked for an "idiomatic" solution, not necessarily the
solution that most precisely meets my functional requirements. Idioms
have to meet a certain threshold for general use and understanding. I
am definitely not getting the impression that user-written condition
handlers are comfortably within the vernacular.

I don't intend to be presumptuous with this post, but count the number
of replies with an idiomatic resignalling example. In my opinion, this
is indicative that there isn't an idiomatic resignalling example to be had.

You're not being presumptuous. In some important ways, you're
basically agreeing with me. I don't know if you understand that I
*found* the solution I was looking for, though.

The bulk of the responses in this thread described or gave code
examples which consisted of a mix of MONMSG, RCVMSG, and SNDPGMMSG.
They weren't identical, but they were relatively minor variations on a
theme. I'm confident that this represents what most folks would do,
given my requirements or something similar. So I was counting *that*
as idiomatic.

One might argue this isn't "idiomatic" in the sense that it's too
straightforward. An idiom usually refers to a turn of phrase that a
nonnative speaker would not stumble upon themselves simply by studying
grammar manuals and standard dictionary definitions, but would
nevertheless be widely understood by native speakers. So no, there's
no particular CL idiom for this. But I was using the term "idiomatic"
more broadly to mean "in the manner that a native speaker would use"
to express something. And I definitely got that here.

The paragraph of mine that you quoted above was intended only to
explain why CEEHDLR is *not* idiomatic. (Note that "user-written
condition handler" was not meant as a generic term for "a piece of
code that users write to handle conditions". It was a specific IBM
term that denotes "the thing that gets registered by CEEHDLR".)

John Y.