On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 10:24 AM Frederick Virchanza Gotham via
Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> What if we could set the type of what's thrown within a try block, as follows:
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> try
> {
> throw = std::runtime_error;
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> if ( something ) throw "bad happened";
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> if ( something ) throw "worse happened;
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> throw = std::logic_error;
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> if ( something ) throw "even worse happened";
> }
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> In the above snippet, the first two 'throw' statements throw an object of type 'runtime_error', and the third throws an object of type 'logic_error'.
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> You could consider this feature to merely be a form of shorthand, but it could also be a versatile way of changing one line of code to affect much larger blocks of code.

... That's exactly what a form of "shorthand" is.

There is no motivation for this change. Nothing you state explains why
what you want would improve anything. You are just throwing out a
thing that occurred to you.