John J Barton wrote:
Debuggers provide break-on-exception as a valuable development feature. Why? Because developers know that an exception is something the merits special attention. If we want to invest in throw/catch we should provide features like runtime detection of would-be-caught.
You seem to be assuming debuggers are the tail that wags the dog, and exceptions are only errors that one must debug. Neither is true.
Debuggers must look inside of closures and get backstage-passes from the GC. They must bear many burdens for the good of the user. Any debugger worth using must be able to stop-on-only-*these*-exceptions, classifying by instance, instanceof/"class", duck-type or other criteria.
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