[Interested bystander 2p.] The thing you are looking for is common in other advanced dynamic languages (mostly Lisp derivatives, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling#Condition_systems). It is the concept of handling the condition in the context where the condition is signaled, rather than magically unwinding the stack looking for catch blocks to throw to. DOM2 has a similar distinction, whether to handle an event in the 'capturing' phase or the 'bubbling' phase.
try/catch can be implemented in terms of condition handling, but not the other way around. I would be all in favor of adding condition handling to JS, and recasting try/catch as syntactic sugar. _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
