Re: proposal: enhanced get diagnostics statement

Excerpts from Pavel Stehule's message of sáb may 21 16:05:01 -0400 2011:

> A implementation of ERROR_CONTEXT is not without impact on
> performance, because context should be collected when exception is
> caught. One solution is removing a ERROR_CONTEXT from proposal. Second
> solution can be a design of enhanced syntax for exception trap like
> (it means - collect CONTEXT when exception is handled)

I don't understand why we should worry about this.  I mean, if you don't
catch the error, you have to form errcontext anyway.  Why is it a
problem to generate it when the exception is caught?

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