Random thought: exceptions ~= localization

It occurred to me that there are perhaps some similarities between the  
problems of defining exception object types (in a distributed/no- 
globals language like E), and displaying text in the user's language:  
They both involve two parties (callee, caller; application, user)  
which communicate using an only partially agreed-up-front vocabulary.

These problems also come together directly in the case where an  
exception is to be displayed in the user interface: the exception  
should be displayed with a message (a) in the user's language which  
(b) makes sense in context.

Also, I would like to remind David Hopwood to post his throw-undoes- 
side-effects proposal. ( http://www.eros-os.org/pipermail/e-lang/2007-January/011831.html 
  is the middle of a thread about it.)

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Kevin Reid                            <http://homepage.mac.com/kpreid/>
(Note: The above message is a mild revision of a very old draft. I may  
not have everything about it swapped in at the moment.)