Deja vu all over again: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2007-March/004076.html
/be On Feb 1, 2011, at 11:09 AM, P T Withington wrote: > [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 _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
