Bug 9913 - JSC should support conditional catch blocks
Summary: JSC should support conditional catch blocks
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: JavaScriptCore (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P3 Enhancement
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/...
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Reported: 2006-07-14 07:49 PDT by Arthur Langereis
Modified: 2011-09-06 23:49 PDT (History)
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Description Arthur Langereis 2006-07-14 07:49:39 PDT 
Moz supports multiple conditional catch blocks with a try block. It would be nice to see support for this in WebKit.
Comment 1 Joost de Valk (AlthA) 2006-07-14 09:35:23 PDT 
cc-ing mjs and ggaren, they might know if this is doable.
Comment 2 Geoffrey Garen 2006-07-14 10:57:03 PDT 
Seems doable.
Comment 3 Gavin Barraclough 2011-09-06 23:49:44 PDT 
I think we have to mark this WONTFIX.

JavaScript engines are moving to much closer compatibility & spec compliance, and I haven't seen any progress on this feature on the standards track.  Since this bug has gone nowhere in 5 years, I don't think we're aware of any pressing web compatibility needs, and this is not being standardized, I don't think this is something we're going to implement.

Hope this seems reasonable, please reopen if this decision seems inappropriate - if there are major website compatibility reasons of standards progress that would justify doing so.