Re: Toward an omnibus Perl 6 Exceptions RFC, v0.1.

At 09:14 PM 8/16/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
>Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> >
> > I can almost see what you're talking about but not quite.  It sounds
> > like you want caller() info available to the exception handler... but
> > isn't it?
>
>The basic problem is that the stack traceback at the time of catching
>is not the same as the stack traceback at the time of throwing,  which
>may be not be the same as the stack traceback at the time the exception
>object was created.
>
>Once you've started unwinding, the original context gets lost.  We're
>working on a couple mechanisms to keep (some) historic context around,
>while unwinding, for debugging purposes.

Actually, according to the documentation for caller(), it should do what I 
want.  It just doesn't yet.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies