Only if you actually specify what that shorter syntax would be. It's not that easy to come up with one that is so brief as an indexing.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS
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2003-10-01 23:53: Subject: Re: throw or return
a) it's shorter to write e.g. err->is_foo_error rather than Program.inherits(object_program(err), FooException), and
If we decide to make the exception system inherit-based we would of course create a shorter way to perform that operation, so this is quite a non-argument.
/ Martin Nilsson (saturator)