Re: [Vala] Can I use the symbolic name of the code of errors in code

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 18:08 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
>  > Say I have the program at the bottom of this mail and in the catch
>  > clause I want to know the error that was thrown was from the FAILED or
>  > the SYNTAX code. How can I check this. I can obtain the error code by
>  > e.code but how do I compare it with FAILED or SYNTAX
>  >
>  > I'd like to write something like:
>  >
>  > if (e.code == MyError.FAILED) {
>  >
>  > }
>
>  I was planning to add support for
>
>     if (e is MyError.FAILED)
>
>  and also
>
>     catch (MyError.FAILED e)
>
>  i.e. treat error codes as subtypes of error domains.
>
>  Any comments or objections?
Go for it!!


Jaap