On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:51:24PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > Could be. I'd be interested in seeing non-OOP proposals that do what I > want exceptions to do, I have a hard time imagining one. Well, what is it that you want exceptions to do? > >What does it mean for an exception to have semantics? When an exception > >is thrown does something special happen whether it's caught or not? > > Yes. In my proposal, if it's caught, the catcher examines the exception > object. If it isn't caught, the program dies with the message attribute as > text. This doesn't show that the exception object itself has any semantics. If the catcher examines, the object is being passive. Does the object *do* anything? -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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