The Right Approach to Exceptions

[dennis luehring]

Am 20.02.2012 19:02, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> Exactly! Just because you use a Variant doesn't magically free you from
> needing to know what exactly is that exception that you caught in the
> first place. To make any sense of what's stored in the Variant, you
> still have to know what is the exception type, and based on the type
> interpret the Variant. So you end up with:
>
> 	catch(Exception e) {
> 		switch(e.type) {
> 			case BlahException:
> 				handleBlahException(e.data.blah_info);
> 				break;
> 			case BlehException:
> 				handleBlehException(e.data.bleh_info);
> 				break;
> 			case BluhException:
> 				handleBluhException(e.data.bluh_info);
> 				break;
> 			...
> 		}
> 	}

Thx Teoh - i also don't know how Andreis Variant[string] would help here 
in any way