[Bug 25457] Adding "AutocompleteError" to error names table

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25457

--- Comment #13 from Domenic Denicola <domenic@domenicdenicola.com> ---
I'm sorry, I still don't understand.

Functions can either return values or throw exceptions. Async functions can
either return fulfilled promises or return rejected promises.

When you throw an exception, you can throw anything, e.g. `throw 5`. This is
bad practice though, and you generally try to throw things that are `instanceof
Error` so that e.g. consumers can get stack traces.

Similarly, when you reject a promise with an exception, you can reject with
anything, e.g. `return Promise.reject(5)`. Again this is bad practice, and you
should generally reject with things that are `instanceof Error`.

There are no "restrictions" in the promise case that do not appear for every
function, ever: your function can either succeed or fail, and if it fails, it
_should_ do so using Error instances.

Why are these semantics---which are fairly basic to JavaScript, and indeed to
most imperative languages---too restrictive to implement requestAutocomplete?

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Received on Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:19:23 UTC