Re: RFC 80 (v1): Exception objects and classes for builtins

[Peter Scott]

At 10:34 AM 8/11/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>But I'm against the idea of implicit rethrowing in any case.
>
>Sure, other languages do it, but perl doesn't, and personally I think
>it's a better paradigm.

We may have to disagree.  If you don't have a clause to catch an exception, 
semantically, it hasn't been caught, so why would you need to explicitly 
rethrow it?  If the implementation needs to catch it anyway, that's the 
implementation's problem.


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies