Re: Another case of wanting to a test like isArray, this time on exceptions from Anne van Kesteren on 2013-09-03 (public-script-coord@w3.org from July to September 2013)

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 07:24:19 +0100
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: "public-script-coord@w3.org" <public-script-coord@w3.org>, dteller@mozilla.com
Message-ID: <CADnb78gOqjLhOp0sug+ioSGQy1StzRUGZbOMrRDeJ=9Z4QhZ7g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> From what I heard the recommend way of doing this is checking the name
> property. It's not entirely clear to me if that'll be true going
> forward though since I believe there are proposals to branch on
> exception type within try/catch.

JavaScript will soonish embrace the concept of multiple globals
(realms) so hopefully all new features will take that into account
somehow. We should at least strongly advocate for that.

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