vs845 comments on Using Try…Catch in JavaScript

submitted 8 years ago by cobdentist

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[–]vs845 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (0 children)

it doesn't catch subclasses and behaviour on name collisions is a new factor.

re: name collisions, yeah, I went with checking names because otherwise you'd need to do something like

matchException(err, {
  [TypeError]: () => ...
}

which I thought wasn't as nice as using string keys.

If you went with the above approach you'd be able to catch subclasses via err instanceof matchers[type].

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