Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> > Could be. I'd be interested in seeing non-OOP proposals that do what I
> > want exceptions to do, I have a hard time imagining one.
>
> Well, what is it that you want exceptions to do?
>
> > >What does it mean for an exception to have semantics? When an exception
> > >is thrown does something special happen whether it's caught or not?
> >
> > Yes. In my proposal, if it's caught, the catcher examines the exception
> > object. If it isn't caught, the program dies with the message attribute as
> > text.
>
> This doesn't show that the exception object itself has any semantics.
> If the catcher examines, the object is being passive. Does the object
> *do* anything?
I want it to be able to. Depends on how you write it...
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Piers
