RFR 8087292: nashorn should have a "fail-fast" option for scripting, analog to bash "set -e"

[Michael Haupt]

Hi Sundar,

lower-case thumbs up!

Best,

Michael

> Am 03.09.2015 um 17:44 schrieb Sundararajan Athijegannathan <sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com>:
> 
> Updated webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8087292/webrev.01/
> 
> Updates:
> 
> * Added throwOnError property (false default) to $EXEC function object
> * Added a test case (suggested by Michael offline)
> 
> On RangeError: I interpreted as { 0 } as only "expected" set of exit code values. Anything outside that is a "range error" as /RangeError/ object indicates an error when a value is not in the set or range of allowed values
> 
> Thanks,
> -Sundar
> 
> On 9/3/2015 7:07 PM, Hannes Wallnoefer wrote:
>> Two suggestions:
>> 
>> The return code is just the "messenger" and we don't know what went wrong, so I would prefer to use plain Error instead of RangeError.
>> And maybe we could set $EXEC.throwOnError = false by default so this feature was easier to discover.
>> 
>> Hannes
>> 
>> Am 2015-09-03 um 15:33 schrieb Sundararajan Athijegannathan:
>>> Please review http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sundar/8087292/ for https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8087292
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Sundar
>> 
> 

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