Re: RFC 88 (v2) Omnibus Structured Exception/Error Handling Mechanism

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 10:47:45AM -0700, Peter Scott wrote:
> > > But I initially wanted to do without the => ... unfortunately that would
> > > require another keyword to handle the EXPR case and it didn't seem 
> > worth it.
> >
> >Not necessarily.
> >
> >         catch { EXPR } { ... }          # probably not going to work though
> >         catch (EXPR) { ... }            # this will work
> >         catch do { EXPR } { ... }       # this will work
> 
> Um, granted, but if you're going to need additional syntax around your EXPR 
> to disambiguate it then => seems as good as any and it has that neat "this 
> thing causes this thing" interpretation.

Okay, I'm just registering my opinion that I don't like it.  :-)

-Scott
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