Re: Oh boy, how did we miss this...

From: Maarten Wiltink (maarten_at_kittensandcats.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:42:36 +0100

"VBDis" <vbdis@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20041108031436.06144.00000027@mb-m27.aol.com...
[...]
> Provided I interpret my latest observations correctly, then runtime
> errors also are exceptions, but kind of exceptions that are not caught
> unless they are translated into Delphi exceptions. In so far it would
> be incorrect to distinguish between runtime errors and exceptions -
> different is only the handling of the runtime error exceptions.
>
> Now I fear that we'll need a more precise terminology, for what is a
> runtime error, and what kinds of exceptions can be handled in Except
> clauses.

Isn't this as simple as distinguishing between Windows exceptions and
Delphi exceptions?

Windows SEH is characterised by the behaviour with respect to guard
frames, and Delphi exception [object] handling was carefully engineered
to be a superset of that, with some replacing of code by functionally
equivalent code.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink

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