The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Sean Kelly]

On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:55 AM, deadalnix wrote:
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> And so variant is the way to go ?
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> Clearly, this is a very strong arguement in favor of typed Exception, that provide usefull information about what went wrong. This is a safe approach.
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> Because this Variant stuff is going to require massive ducktyping of Exceptions, with all possible errors involved. The keys in the Variant[string] will depend on the Exception the dev is facing. This should be avoided and should warn us about the requirement of typed Exceptions.

I think its debatable whether a Variant[string] or string[string] is ideal here, but either way I think the point of the table is for localized error messages.  I wouldn't expect any data relevant for filtering the exception within the table.