1.11 Feb 20, 2003

- A description containing a single quote or backslash would cause a
syntax error in the code generated by Exception::Class.  Patch by Luc
St-Louis.

1.10 Jan 28, 2003

- The alias feature had a bug that showed up when an alias was
assigned to a class whose parent had not yet been made.

1.09 Jan 22, 2003

- Tweak to Fields method so that it returns empty list for 5.6.1 and
5.00503.

- Require Devel::StackTrace 1.03 to fix potential recursion problem
between the two classes when stringifying exceptions.

1.08 Jan 21, 2003

- Added "alias" feature, which allows you to create a subroutine that
throws a specified exception.  This is based on code created by Ken
Williams for Mason.

1.07 Sep 9, 2002

- Forgot to require Devel::StackTrace 1.01.

1.06 release date?

- Use File::Spec when testing file method so that test 7 passes on all
platforms.  Reported by Ron Savage.

- Use Test::More for test suite.

- Change NoObjectRefs method to NoRefs, to match change in
Devel::StackTrace 1.01.  The old method is deprecated, but will
continue to work.  However, it now _means_ the same thing as NoRefs.

1.05 Aug 23, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Add NoObjectRefs class method to prevent Devel::StackTrace from
holding onto objects internally, thus delaying destruction.  Based on
a discussion with Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.04 Aug 22, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Fix messed up tarball as reported by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

1.03 Aug 21, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Some versions of Perl may give an error about "Ambiguous call
resolved as CORE::time()".  This should be fixed now.  Reported by Ron
Savage.

1.02 Aug 20, 2002 (from Taiwan)

- Fields set in a parent class were not actually being inherited by
children.  Patch (with tests!) by David Wheeler.

- Allow a single argument (error/message) to the constructor.  Patch
by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa.

- General doc cleanup.

1.01 May 23, 2002

- Make sure that exception objects always test as true in a boolean
context.

1.00 Mar 8, 2002

- Added a full_message method intended to be overridden when you
create a subclass that uses fields that you want included in the
stringification of the object.  Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.99 Mar 6, 2002

- The much-requested "arbitrary attributes" feature has been added.
Thanks to Jon Swartz for the patch.  You can now do this:

  use Exception::Class ( 'My::Exception' => { fields => [ 'bar', 'baz' ] } );

  ...

  if ( UNIVERSAL::isa( $@, 'My::Exception' ) { print $@->bar, $@->baz; }

0.98 Feb 20, 2002

- Subclasses that overrode the ->as_string method had to repeat the
stringification overloading for exception objects.  This has been
changed so that the stringification overloading is now

  sub { $_[0]->as_string }

Suggested by Jon Swartz.

0.97 Nov 25, 2001

- Incorporated a patch from Ken Williams that works around several
Perl 5.6.0 bugs.

- Test 31 was explicitly different for 5.6.0.  Ken said that the
difference actually made it fail (whereas in the past for me it
succeeded).  Tweak this test a bit more to just be more flexible under
5.6.0.

0.96 Nov 23, 2001

- Changes wasn't in MANIFEST.  Oops.

- Doc tweaks and cleanup of README.

- Make do_trace a synonym to Trace for backwards compatibility.

0.95 Nov 22, 2001

** INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE **

- Remove do_trace method and replace it with Trace method, which is
inherited by subclasses.

- Exception object now always have a Devel::StackTrace object
available.  The Trace method only determines whether or not it is
included when the exception is stringified.

- A new parameter show_trace for throw which allows you to override
the value of Trace on a case by case basis.

- Fix uninit value warning with 5.00503.

0.90 Oct 23, 2001

- fix buglet reported by Terrence Brannon that could occur while
trying to figure out where the exception was thrown, if the exception
was thrown from the package that the exception is an object of.

- doc improvements suggested Nathaniel Smith (related to using
Error.pm) and Mark Stosberg.

0.85

- added ability to use message instead of error as hash key to
constructor.

0.8 Sep 3, 2000

- changed object from psuedo-hash to regular hash

- added package, file, & line methods to exception object.

- added more tests for exception object accessors

0.7 Sep 3, 2000

- hack in test.pl to allow tests to pass under 5.6.0.

- README details various Perl bugs this module (along with
Devel::StackTrace) can expose and some possible workarounds.

0.6 Jun 27, 2000

- renamed to Exception::Class

0.5 Jun 26, 2000

Initial release, as Class::Exceptions.