Proposal: Extensible exceptions
Ian Lynagh
igloo at earth.li
Fri Jul 4 17:10:15 EDT 2008
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:22:23PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> On 2008 Jul 4, at 9:56, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
> >In fact, this applies to catchAny too. It should come with a strong
> >warning, and a suggestion that any unrecognised exceptions should be
> >re-thrown. Most uses of catchAny are to implement
>
> Given that it just tries a catch with each exception in the list, why
> couldn't it automatically re-throw if none matches?
I think you're confusing "catchAny" (which catches /any/ sort of
exception) with "catches" (which has a list of handlers for different
types, and does indeed rethrow exceptions that none of the handlers
catch).
Thanks
Ian
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