On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:16:13 +0200
Jacob Carlborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-10-01 06:35, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>
> > Is that a bug or a feature? :)
>
> Actually you can do the same thin in Ruby, at least with strings.
> This is can be kind of nice, no need to create a new exception type.
> But in Ruby the string is wrapped in an instance of RuntimeError, so
> that might not be comparable.
>
> raise "foo"
>
> Is the same as:
>
> raise RuntimeError.new("foo")
>
Haxe can throw anything, too. I've always found it borderline useless,
and frequently a pain.