Nice. Thanks!
>> Yes, I was using that, but it is not very clean. It gives the wrong
>> impression that an error happened (which in many cases it is probably
>> true, but not always) plus it prints the call stack at the point of the
>> error. If error() could be told to be silent, it would be almost
>> perfect. Anyway, a minor thing.
>
> immutable Stop <: Exception end
>
> function run_task(f)
> try f()
> catch e
> if isa(e, Stop)
> println("Your program was gracefully terminated.")
> else
> rethrow()
> end
> end
> end
>
> function f()
> throw(Stop())
> end
>
> function g()
> f()
> end
>
> julia> run_task() do
> g()
> end
> Your program was gracefully terminated.
>
> julia> run_task() do
> error("This is bad.")
> end
> ERROR: This is bad.
> in run_task(::##84#85) at ./REPL[167]:2
>
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Ángel de Vicente
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