[bug#60802] [PATCH v3 1/2] platforms: Raise an exception when no suitable platform is found.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Josselin,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> skribis:

> This looks good to me, although in the grand scheme of things I wonder
> if that change is a step forward: for those kinds of procedures, we
> could expect consumers to instead always properly handle the #f case
> themselves, rather than baby-sitting them and systematically relying on
> exceptions in the parent procedure, no?  As a caricatural example: the
> SRFI-1 `find` could raise an exception instead of returning #f, but I
> don't think anyone would consider that proper behaviour.

I share this sentiment in general (plus the fact that we should keep UI
aspects, such as error reports, separate from core logic).  Here there’s
a precedent with other lookup procedures though
(‘lookup-bootloader-by-name’, ‘lookup-compressor’,
‘lookup-image-type-by-name’, etc.), so I think it’s okay to keep it that
way.

Ludo’.