Re: Exceptions and Objects

[Piers Cawley]

Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 07:27:47PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> > At 12:22 PM 8/12/00 -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > Pretty much.  It screams O-O for these reasons:
> > 
> > An exception is an 'error'.  That's already a vague concept.
> > 
> > An error has text associated with it, but also a bunch of other attributes.
> 
> So it's a structured data type ... where does OOP come into play?

Because once you bless it into a class by default then you can use OO
based dispatch, have exceptions that know how to handle themselves and
other good stuff.

You are, of course, free to ignore the OO bells and whistles and just
treat it as structured data and do your own handling.

-- 
Piers