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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 23:12:18 -0800
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On 01/26/2014 10:46 PM, me wrote:
> In any case, thanks for the answers guys.  I'm satisfied that the except:
> syntax yields undefined behavior, and in my mind it shouldn't be
> syntactically allowed then.
>
> Updating to Exception,e or Exception as e fixes the problem.
>

That's an irksome habit you have there,  this jumping to (incorrect) 
conclusions so quickly.   We'd like to get to the bottom of this. (And 
correct your mis-interpretations while we're at it :-)    But we need to 
see your test *and* the results.

Gary Herron