[Asterisk-Users] AbsoluteTimeout Inside A Macro

[Christopher L. Wade]

Mike Coakley wrote:
> 
> Hmm... I couldn't get my Macro to work and your comments have me 
> thinking I'm stupid again. I think I'm going to setup another test bed 
> and wack the crap out of this one... next question to ask the 
> developers... why wouldn't they include the system extensions. That 
> would make the Macro implementation more complete.
> 

Don't think this type of extension vs this other type of extension. 
Think flow control vs exception handling.  AbsoluteTimeout is listed in 
  the wiki as flow control, but it is actually an exception device and 
the 'T' extension is the exception handler.  Most applications, not just 
Macro, simply exit upon encountering an exception, thus, when 
AbsoluteTimeout exceptions happen during Macro execution, you are 
dropped out of the macro into the context that called the macro.

It's not a matter of not including something, its a matter of how 
something is implemented.

Thanks,
Chris