Re: RFC 63 (v4) Exception handling syntax

At 07:54 PM 8/24/00 +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote:
>PRL> Exceptions are objects belonging to some C<Exception> class.  C<throw>ing
>PRL> an exception creates the object; therefore, C<EXCEPTION> above is just a
>PRL> class name (possibly including some C<::>).
>PRL>
>PRL> The C<exception> function is just syntactic sugar for creating a new
>PRL> exception class;it merely amounts to C<@EXCEPTION::ISA = 'Exception'>.
>
>Often people want to create hierarchies of exception classes. In proposed
>implementation 'exeption' keyword doesn't allow to create exception classes
>subclassed from other exception classes.
>
>IMHO in such implementation this keyword will not be very usefull.

 From the beginning of the posting you're quoting:

This RFC has been merged into RFC 88. The text of the last version
prior to the merge is left below for archival purposes only. Anyone
interested in browsing this for historical reasons probably has way
too much time on their hands :-)


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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies