DIP33: A standard exception hierarchy - finally blocks not executed for Errors

[Walter Bright]

On 4/2/2013 4:42 AM, Don wrote:
> I think that view is reasonable, but then I don't understand the reason to have
> Error in the first place! Why not just call some kind of abort() function, and
> provide the ability to hook into it?

It would seem to be a fair amount of bookkeeping code to make a hook that would 
work with many different pieces of code dealing with Errors in different ways.