[m-users.] io.error type

[Sean Charles (emacstheviking)]

Hi Volker,

I just try to open files, if it fails, I use error_message() to explain why and leave it at that...is there some *specific* reason you need to know the file didn't exist?



> On 4 Feb 2022, at 07:05, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> Am Freitag, dem 04.02.2022 um 16:51 +1100 schrieb Julien Fischer:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Volker Wysk wrote:
>> 
>>> The type io.error is abstract. It looks like the only thing that can be done
>>> with it, is to create an error message. But I need to do something which
>>> depends on which error it is. So how to find this out...?
>> 
>> You can't using the interface currently exported by the io module.
>> The io.error type just holds an error message.  The implementation of
>> the predicates in the io module internally uses a system_error type, but
>> as its names suggests it is system specific and in any case isn't
>> accesible to normal user code.
>> 
>> What is it that you are trying to do?
> 
> I want to read the contents of a file, using open_input,
> read_file_as_string, close_input. In case the file doesn't exist, I want to
> return an empty string. So, in case of an error, I want to determine if it's
> because the file doesn't exist.
> 
> It isn't a show stopper to me, I can return "" in case of any error, but it
> isn't optimal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Volker
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