Re: Exceptions in event listeners triggered by dispatchEvent().

* Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>On 6/4/13 11:19 AM, Domenic Denicola wrote:
>> Really? To JavaScript programmers, it's the only thing that makes sense. 
>> There is no way in native JavaScript semantics to do the magic thing the 
>> web platform currently does, wherein (a) code is executed synchronously, 
>> but (b) exceptions thrown from that code bypass any surrounding 
>> `try`/`catch` blocks, and instead reach `window.onerror`.
>
>Uh... Sure there is.  It's as simple as a function that catches the 
>exception and then calls window.onerror, no?

That may end up having different behavior when it comes to stack traces
and debugger behavior.
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Received on Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:01:03 UTC