[Stackless] Exception passing patch

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stackless-bounces at stackless.com [mailto:stackless-
> bounces at stackless.com] On Behalf Of Richard Tew
> Sent: 2. desember 2009 05:52
> To: Peter Ingebretson
> Cc: stackless at stackless.com
> Subject: Re: [Stackless] Exception passing patch
> However, it goes against a previous change.  Some time in the past
> Christian removed sending of exception instances, and replaced it with
> sending types and arguments.  If the reasoning behind his change was
> because of problems it caused, then that would of course rule out any
> possibility of reversing it.
> 
> Out of curiosity, can you give some examples of where you find it
> useful to do this?
> 

Richard, wasn't the change a different one?  In the old days, passing an exception instance to channel.send() would magically raise it on the receive() end.  I think he added the send_exception() to explicitly send an exception.  I too find it odd that one cannot send an exception instance over like this, although I've never came across a specific use case.

K