Collateral Exceptions, Throwable vs Exception

[Andrej Mitrovic]

The problem is in the e = e.next assignment, not in the code block below it.

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Stanislav Blinov
<stanislav.blinov at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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*/);
>    }
> }
>