From kde-devel  Sun Dec 04 20:16:10 2005
From: David Johnson <david () usermode ! org>
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:16:10 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: C++ exceptions
Message-Id: <200512041216.10889.david () usermode ! org>
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On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:47 am, Jonas Widarsson wrote:

> I read about exceptions and like to use them in my KDE app to, but
> first I'd like to hear the primary reasons why KDE didn't like
> exceptions.

I always understood that this restriction was for libraries, and not 
applications. The reason is that once a library throws an exception, it 
is expecting the application to catch it. It would be a problem if 
libraries never propagated exceptions, but it never works that way in 
practice.

-- 
David Johnson
 
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