Subj : Re: try catch blocks
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Georg_Maa=DF?= <georg@bioshop.de>
Date : Thu May 15 2003 09:47 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:
> SpiderMonkey supports an extension to ECMA: catch guards.  If you write
> 
>  try {
>    . . .
>  } catch (e if e instanceof SQLException) {
>    // here we know e is an SQLException
>  } catch (e) {
>    // this is the "catch-all" clause
>  } finally {
>    // code here runs no matter how control leaves the try-catch chain
>  }
> 
> I don't recall whether Rhino supports this extension.
> 
> /be

Will this awful hack remain in JS 2.0? There it is not necesary, if it 
is implemented like known from C++ an Java.


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