Re: Exceptions and Objects

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 10:56:36AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> >     try { } 
> >     catch SomeException { }
> >     catch SomeOtherException { }
> >     finally { }
> > 
> > which seems to only catch exceptions based on name.
> 
> Yes, but an exception has multiple names as it is a class name
> and you perform ->isa(name)

So are you saying that the above code is really executing something
like this:

        try { }
        catch {
            switch ($@) {
                case ^_->isa('SomeException') { }
                case ^_->isa('SomeOtherException') { }
            }
        }
        finally { }
?

-Scott
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