Commit aaeced9
doc: fix the exception description
A value shouldn't be described as doing inherit from some class, more
strictly, the value is an instance of the class `Error`.
PR-URL: #3658
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Stephan Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>1 parent 098a311 commit aaeced9
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@@ -357,9 +357,10 @@ of argument validation. | |||
| 357 | 357 | ||
| 358 | 358 | <!--type=misc--> | |
| 359 | 359 | ||
| 360 | - A JavaScript "exception" is a value that is thrown as a result of an invalid operation or | ||
| 361 | - as the target of a `throw` statement. While it is not required that these values inherit from | ||
| 362 | - `Error`, all exceptions thrown by Node.js or the JavaScript runtime *will* be instances of Error. | ||
| 360 | + A JavaScript exception is a value that is thrown as a result of an invalid operation or | ||
| 361 | + as the target of a `throw` statement. While it is not required that these values are instances of | ||
| 362 | + `Error` or classes which inherit from `Error`, all exceptions thrown by Node.js or the JavaScript | ||
| 363 | + runtime *will* be instances of Error. | ||
| 363 | 364 | ||
| 364 | 365 | Some exceptions are *unrecoverable* at the JavaScript layer. These exceptions will always bring | |
| 365 | 366 | down the process. These are usually failed `assert()` checks or `abort()` calls in the C++ layer. | |
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