I second that. That is what the function of the catch is for... On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Brian L. Matthews <blmatthews at gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > The "catch(whatever)" is obviously a function-call > > > > Uh, no. catch specifies where the program flow should go when throw is > executed in the block preceding the catch. The whatever is just a > variable that gets assigned the value that was thrown. It's often e or > err for obvious reasons, but there's nothing special about either of > those names. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > Javascript mailing list > Javascript at lists.evolt.org > http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/javascript >