Subj : Re: How do I raise an exception?
To   : Thomas Sondergaard
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Wed Aug 03 2005 10:37 am

Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
>> No, you can use JS_ReportError to throw errors as exceptions, but they 
>> won't be localizable.  The bug you may be referring to involves the 
>> hardwired error numbers enumerated with other data by js.msg, and how 
>> an embedding can't use JS_ReportErrorNumber or related APIs with its 
>> own catalog of messages.
> 
> 
> I think this is your comment on the bug that I'm talking about
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215173#c6


Right you are, I had forgotten about that further evil -- bad enough 
that one can't use one's own localizable message catalog.  Ugh!

Will try to fix this when I get back in a week, but the fix will show up 
only in the mozilla1.9a trunk CVS.

/be

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