Collateral Exceptions, Throwable vs Exception

[Stanislav Blinov]

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Actually, would this be safe to use? :
> 
>     try
>     {
>         fun();
>     }
>     catch (Exception e)
>     {
>         writeln("Primary exception: ", typeid(e));
>        
>         while ((e = cast(Exception)e.next) !is null)
>         {
>             writeln("Collateral exception: ", typeid(e));
>         } 
>     }
> 

I'm no expert, but why shouldn't? I'd propose a correction though:

while ((e = e.next) !is null)
{
     if (cast(Exception)e)
     {
         writeln(/*whatever*/);
     }
}