[hunchentoot-devel] Invoke-debugger

[Leslie P. Polzer]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 09:37:06AM +0100, Hans Hübner wrote:

> We faced this problem a few times in the past and had the luxury to
> fix the underlying libraries.  Normally, removing the use of
> ignore-errors is not hard to do, and quality code does not use it
> anyway.  Face it, using (ignore-errors (parse-integer ...)) is nothing
> but stupid, but that was where I had to repair stuff in the past to
> make it debuggable.

A perfectly sane pattern however is catching a specific error, e.g.

(handler-case (parse-integer ...)
  (parse-error ()
    nil))

This also triggers a break, of course.

  Leslie