Re: Exceptions in event listeners triggered by dispatchEvent().

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/4/13 11:19 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
>> Really? To JavaScript programmers, it's the only thing that makes sense.
>> There is no way in native JavaScript semantics to do the magic thing the web
>> platform currently does, wherein (a) code is executed synchronously, but (b)
>> exceptions thrown from that code bypass any surrounding `try`/`catch`
>> blocks, and instead reach `window.onerror`.
>
> Uh... Sure there is.  It's as simple as a function that catches the
> exception and then calls window.onerror, no?

Given the likely outcome of
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22185 running the
script as a fresh code entry-point is a special kind of semantics, I
think. When TC39 tries to rationalize script execution they'll have to
take this into account (among many other things).


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