Re: Bug, feature or just accidental?

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From	Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Bug, feature or just accidental?
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On 08/ 2/11 10:35 PM, boltar2003@boltar.world wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:29:08 +0900
> Miles Bader<miles@gnu.org>  wrote:
>> The thing is that the parens are _not_ part of the "throw" statement
>> (the syntax of throw is just "throw SOMETHING" -- note, no parens),
>> they're just random parens that you can put around any expression.
>
> I think Stroustrup missed a trick there. It would be very useful to throw
> multiple values at the same time instead of having to create an object
> to hold them in and throw that. Functions arn't limited to a single argument
> so I don't really see a good reason why throw-catch is.

Think of throw as more like a return statement than a function call and 
you'll see that argument dose not make sense.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 08:49 +0000
  Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-02 20:55 +1200
    Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 10:21 +0000
      Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-08-02 19:29 +0900
        Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 10:35 +0000
          Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-02 22:42 +1200
            Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 11:16 +0000
              Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-02 08:08 -0400
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 12:40 +0000
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-02 08:59 -0400
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 13:23 +0000
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Victor Bazarov <v.bazarov@comcast.invalid> - 2011-08-02 09:43 -0400
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? boltar2003@boltar.world - 2011-08-02 13:53 +0000
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? James Lothian <james@firstnamelastname.freeserve.co.uk> - 2011-08-03 07:49 +0100
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? "Paul" <pchristor@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-08-03 10:47 +0100
                Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2011-08-02 15:43 -0500
              Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-08-02 16:12 +0000
      Re: Bug, feature or just accidental? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-08-02 22:32 +1200

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