The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/20/12 10:15 AM, dennis luehring wrote:
>> Again, I think this thread clarified we need the "Variant[string] info;"
>> member however we define the hierarchy.
>
> to use an mighty hyper map capable of holding all informative "values"
> will just follow in the same amount of non-using code, and the using
> code will be filled up with info["blub"], info["blab"], evil castings,
> sensless const key-string an still no proper way to show/use the
> information in an generic and typesafe way
>
> sorry but feels like throwing anway the signature conecpt and replace it
> with an runtime thing ... maybe we should also get rid of function
> signatures with "Variant[string] parameter" :}

I understand this seems loose, but again, when you want to do custom 
formatting or i18n this is the way to go. The job of rendering the 
exception as a string must be outsourced (heh) outside the exception, 
and Variant[string] is a simple mechanism to do so.

Andrei