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From: morrison@eecs.nwu.edu (Vance Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Proposal for Exceptions for C++
Message-ID: <8180008@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 88 19:24:39 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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ADDITION TO THE PROPOSAL,

	I recieved a letter which made me realize that a small 
addition to my proposal should be made.  Originally the syntax for
the 'catch' statement was

	<statement> catch <exception handler statement>

I would like to extend it to be

	<statement> catch 
		<exception handler statement> [ else <no exception statement> ]

Where the else clause is optional.
This makes things like looping on exceptions easy

	for(;;) {
	    <statement> catch resume;
			else  break;
	    }


						Vance Morrison