[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope3-checkins] SVN: Zope3/trunk/src/zope/ Massive style cleanup: Move to new raise exception style; for motivation, see:

[Benji York]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> Benji York wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure it's worth worrying about (and I definitely prefer the 
>> new version better), but these type conversions are not backward 
>> compatible.    Of course it's only a problem if anyone is trying to 
>> catch the string version of the exception.
> 
> 
> There were no references to these string exceptions anywhere in the 
> Zope3 codebase, nor was the exception described in any interface. So I 
> felt confident that any breakage I caused was self-inflicted by whomever 
> was using this undocumented feature. ;)

That's good enough for me!  :)
-- 
Benji York
Senior Software Engineer
Zope Corporation