Re: [boost] Re: exception context

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Colvin
EXCEPT.DOC Description: MS-Word document On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 11:51 America/Denver, Gennaro Prota wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:06:45 -0700, Greg Colvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The idea of the why() member was to preserve context when one exception gets caught and a different one gets

Re: [boost] Re: exception context

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Colvin
The idea of the why() member was to preserve context when one exception gets caught and a different one gets thrown, so you could walk back the chain of why()'s asking what() and where(). I bring it up just as a design that might be worth resurrecting if it meets your needs. On Friday, Mar 21, 200

Re: [boost] Re: exception context

2003-03-21 Thread Greg Colvin
std::exception used to have a why() member that returned the list of exceptions leading to the one caught. Is that part of what you want? On Friday, Mar 21, 2003, at 03:58 America/Denver, Alisdair Meredith wrote: Darren Cook wrote: I wanted something like the call stack that shows in python or