Actually, would this be safe to use? :
try
{
fun();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
writeln("Primary exception: ", typeid(e));
while ((e = cast(Exception)e.next) !is null)
{
writeln("Collateral exception: ", typeid(e));
}
}
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Andrej Mitrovic <
[email protected]> wrote:
> That goes against the statement in TDPL that user code should never catch
> Throwable's, unless absolutely necessary. So in case of collateral
> exceptions, we are forced to catch Throwable anyway?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Sean Kelly <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Andrej Mitrovic Wrote:
>>
>> > TDPL code that should work:
>> ...
>> > Errors out:
>> > (49): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (e.next) of type
>> object.Throwable to object.Exception
>> >
>> > Why would the return type of e.next be Throwable if e is an Exception
>> type?
>>
>> Because e.next is a Throwable reference inherited from Throwable:
>>
>> class Throwable {
>> Throwable next;
>> }
>>
>> class Error : Throwable {}
>> class Exception : Throwable {}
>>
>> Because collateral exceptions could be both Errors and Exceptions, I don't
>> think the sample code can work exactly as written.
>>
>
>
