Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: try ... catch for a specific error ? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 16:43:49 +0200 Organization: solani.org Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <574fe5c6$0$5901$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <5750271d$0$5837$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <575036d4$0$5889$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <57504110$0$5945$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1464878623 13646 eJwNx0kBwDAIBEBLXEtADpDgX0I7v4E6+xxzuGGx29FbkCqi1Hez0kOp7FzSwca9HJEBlk5Ggedvq8+Krz8ZlufqhNl8+66hx7RKISF7PqAaHmU= (2 Jun 2016 14:43:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 14:43:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1 X-User-ID: eJwNycEBwCAIA8CVGgzRdSCW/Udo73u5BHlTKebkjE+a77pRBUWTenCFzc2QE22UD6L/ivEHGKIQ5A== In-Reply-To: <57504110$0$5945$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Cancel-Lock: sha1:qoXLgdFw4Qy9m5vlzRx2SJXWXI8= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQkBACAIBLBKAh5gHN7+EdwgSlp2FXqxWAn1vOFz1gRZYKhjQo9XpRVhOp2CKSndYabZJ5f9tfQ9wzkB5Z61EtLY0uaUenjvZX2qTh8b Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:30619 On 02.06.2016 at 16:23, R.Wieser wrote: >> Indeed, I should have written "host environment specific". > > ... and even that its doesn't matter in the slightest I'm afraid. > > And it would also be even less usefull as a designation, as "host" can be > used for both an OS, a browser and, with a little bit of will, even for a > webpage ... Well, the ECMAScript specification[1] says: | ECMAScript is an object-oriented programming language for performing | computations and manipulating computational objects within a host | environment. So "host environment specific" seems appropriate. [1] -- Christoph M. Becker