Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at basic excepton handling, introducing a few examples. The workspace code used in the screencast:

"Query an URL that does not answer"
[(HttpClient new get: 'http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks') contents]
	on: OSErrorHolder needRetrySignal, OS.OSErrorHolder peerFaultSignal
	do: [:ex | Transcript show: 'Timed out'; cr.
			ex return]

"Divide by Zero"
[4/0]
	on: ZeroDivide
	do: [:ex | ex return: 0]

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