On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 18:11:22 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote: > In order to support continuable exception generators, here is a > style guide for exception values, and an observation on what > exceptions should support at the language level:
And more... * Exception strings are for humans Humans need to know what happened in their own words. They have a hard time analyzing error codes, or constant names. Computers have a hard time analyzing strings, and prefer hard data. It should be easy to identify each error in a way that is meaningful to computers, and this way should be orthogonal to the string that is displayed to the user when possible. This means that it should be incredibly easy for the user to declare exception classes as they are used, perhaps by stealing goodness from enumish constructs, or somesuch. -- () Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0xEBD27418 perl hacker & /\ kung foo master: *shu*rik*en*sh*u*rik*en*s*hur*i*ke*n*: neeyah!!!!
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