Re: Another case of wanting to a test like isArray, this time on exceptions

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> I feel like a broken record, but...
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911799 has a use case for
> detecting what sort of exception you have: TypeError, StopIteration, or
> whatnot.  Doing this when the exception was thrown in code running in a
> different global is not really possible right now, right?
>
> We may want some sort of mechanism on exceptions to ask them what sorts of
> exceptions they are.

>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.


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