Exception chaining and collectException

[Nemanja Boric via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 August 2017 at 20:15:53 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 08/19/2017 01:58 PM, Nemanja Boric wrote:
>
>> C++ also provides a way to inspect if you're in the middle of 
>> the stack
>> unwinding caused by an exception, to make this a bit more 
>> controllable,
>> and I would think we should provide the similar primitive:
>> .
>>
>
> I don't know whether C++11 changed matters but according to 
> popular C++98 wisdom, we were told "Don't use 
> [std::uncaught_exception]":
>
>   www.gotw.ca/gotw/047.htm
>
> Ali

Rationale for changing this in C++17 is actually comming from 
Herb Sutter and it is referring to gotw47: 
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3614.pdf