Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > > Could be. I'd be interested in seeing non-OOP proposals that do what I > > want exceptions to do, I have a hard time imagining one. > > Well, what is it that you want exceptions to do? > > > >What does it mean for an exception to have semantics? When an exception > > >is thrown does something special happen whether it's caught or not? > > > > Yes. In my proposal, if it's caught, the catcher examines the exception > > object. If it isn't caught, the program dies with the message attribute as > > text. > > This doesn't show that the exception object itself has any semantics. > If the catcher examines, the object is being passive. Does the object > *do* anything? I want it to be able to. Depends on how you write it... -- Piers
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