Quote: the most natural way to describe exceptions is to throw objects and catch classes; a copy of the object thrown is passed to the handler

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[Information about an exception] must be stored somewhere. This implies that … an object representing the exception. … It would seem more sensible to use the … particular exception thrown. [But then, what kind of object is it?] … [p. 141] It appears, therefore that the most natural … thrown is passed to the handler.   Google-1   Google-2

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