The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/20/12 2:31 PM, Juan Manuel Cabo wrote:
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>> Sure. Again, this is not advocating replacement of exception hierarchies with tables!
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>> Andrei
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> I think that the case of rethrowing an exception with added detail is the worst
> enemy of clean Exception hierarchies.
> The idea of Variant[string] remedies that case without creating a new exception
> class just for the added fields. If that case is solved, then the tipical need
> for creating new exception types that don't really aid selecting them for
> catching and recovery is solved too.

Good point. One thing somewhat particular to D, you can always throw a 
new exception linked to the current one.

Andrei