The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, February 20, 2012 20:42:28 deadalnix wrote:
> Le 20/02/2012 20:27, Jonathan M Davis a écrit :
> > On Monday, February 20, 2012 11:15:08 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >> That's why I proposed to use runtime reflection to scan the exception
> >> object for applicable fields. Then you get the best of both worlds: the
> >> message formatter doesn't need to know what the fields are, and you get
> >> full compile-time type checking for catching code that directly accesses
> >> the fields.
> > 
> > That would certainly be better.
> > 
> > - Jonathan M Davis
> 
> This is way better than Variant[string], but unimplemented ATM.

Yes, but you can use compile-time constructs to generate it. And as you 
pointed out in another post, tupleof should do the trick. Regardless, the 
point is that using reflection of some kind is a much better solution than 
using variant.

- Jonathan M Davis