June 12, 2003
10:26 a.m.
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 08:49, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
I actually like "cause" better than "antecedent", though not by a whole lot. The SAX exception (SAXException, of course;) provides a method getException() to retrieve the embedded exception, though I'd prefer a simple attribute or property.
Me too, but "cause" implies (to me) a stronger connection between the original exception and the one you've just caught. More suggestions, none great: "original", "chain", "chainedexc", "exc_chain", "excprev", "previous". -Barry