Re: [WebIDL] Exceptions

On 7/6/2011 6:06 PM, Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:
>
> I'd much prefer to see code that looks like:
>       try {doSomeDOMStuff() }
>       catch (e) {
>          switch (e.name) {
>               case "NoNotificationAllowedError": ...; break;
>               case "HierarchyRequestError": ...; break;
>               default: throw e
>            }
>       }
Any work with DOM API (at least in Firefox) makes even this case 
impractical.  You'll be luck if the exception has *any* meaningful content.

jjb

Received on Thursday, 7 July 2011 03:51:11 UTC