On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:33:48 -0400, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Friday, October 26, 2012 19:53:04 Justin Whear wrote: >> Is there a way to get the current exception inside a scope(failure)? I >> have a try..catch around my main loop which simply logs the caught >> exception and rethrows it. I'd like to replace this with a simple scope >> (failure) but I haven't found any way to access the exception causing >> the unwinding. > > If you want to see the exception, you must catch it. scope statements do > not provide access to exceptions. So, scope works great as long as you > don't need access to the exception, but if you do, you need to use > try-catch blocks. > > - Jonathan M Davis
My understanding is that scope(failure) simply lowers to the catch block of a try..catch, so there's no implementation obstacle to making the exception available. Are there known syntax or correctness obstacles to allowing something like this: scope(failure)(Exception ex) writeln(ex.msg);