>>>>> "JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JSD> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:36:42PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
>> If you use a switch statement and want implicit rethrow (and I do), then
>> your exception handler somehow has to look inside the switch to see if an
>> exception was handled. Even if that's possible, it implies a level of
>> incestuousness that isn't good; what if the programmer puts something
>> besides a switch in the catch/else block? Is it supposed to look inside
>> that too to figure out if the exception was caught?
JSD> Let the programmer tell Perl that the exception was handled. I
JSD> suggested in another email that "undef $@" would do it. But that's
JSD> just an idea.
Though if the finally block needs to differentiate between an unwind
and a normal situation you would lose that fact. Hmm, unless you
restore the value in the finally block. But that is confusing.
I think you will find a reasonably even split between the two camps.
One possible weight would be how often a caught exception would be
rethrown. If the percentage is high enough, then why not simply add
the rethrow in the otherwise section.
<chaim>
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