The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Juan Manuel Cabo]

> FileNotFoundException is the super class of the others so the first catch clause is enough. in fact, the others will
> never be called if listed in the above order.

Nice! I missed that. But what if you want to add ErrorCode and Rainbows?
And with your approach, one has to test for type and downcast, or
otherwise have multiple catch blocks (I don't want to miss plain
FileNotFoundExceptions). So it's square one.

With Variant[string] (or something equivalent, nothing better comes to mind)
one does:


    try {
        ...
    } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
         if (ex.hasInfo(MyNameConstant)) {
             ... use that ...
         }
         ... common handling ...
    }


--jm