[Bug 16471] Exception "type"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16471

--- Comment #7 from Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> 2012-03-21 22:12:06 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > ...and under 4.9.2 (the ECMAScript binding), we have:
> > 
> > Note
> > 
> > If an exception is thrown with a specific type, then the rules in section 4.11
> > below will create a shadowing “name” property on the exception object itself.
> > 
> > So, for ECMAScript, type == "name".
> > 
> > At least, that's how I read it :-)
> 
> Though in our planned implementation, we're making the "name" property an
> accessor on the exception prototype object _exclusively_ rather than creating
> the shadowed property on the instance. It's less like ECMAScript's native
> Errors, but allows webdevs to hook the "name" property for tracking much easier
> (across all DOM-thrown exceptions), and was self-consistent with how we had
> implemented DOMException's "code" property in the past. (Run-time addition of
> properties onto a thrown exception object was vetoed by my developers.)

nice :) 

> We are also adding a stringifier.

Sounds pretty cool.

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Received on Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:12:09 UTC