[pypy-dev] problems compiling with complex

[Christian Tismer]

Armin Rigo wrote:
> Hi Christian,

Wrong address. You are right, of course.

>> You are also raising standard exceptions with argumens, which
>> is not supported (thanks Samuele).
> 
> Raising then is fine, in the sense that you can say
> 
>     raise ValueError("some message")
> 
> but the message itself is lost in RPython, so you cannot read it back in
> complextype.py:159:
> 
>     except ValueError, e:
>         raise OperationError(space.w_ValueError, space.wrap(e.msg))
> 
> Also note that space.float_w() isn't supposed to raise ValueErrors,
> either.  It should directly raise the correct OperationError, and you
> shouldn't have to worry about catching it.  If it's not the case then
> something is wrong with float_w().

This is fine, but you shouldn't tell me, I'm just the trainer, here.

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