On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:16, David Johnson wrote: > 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. According to my book, Stroustrup's The C++ Programming language, that is one of the reasons why we *should* use exceptions. If it doesn't work in practise, is it because users misunderstand the API for some reason, like inadequate docs? (Look, I am just wondering no reason for anyone to get upset) -- Jonas Widarsson tel: +46 271 152 00 - tel: +46 271 121 42 (hemma/home) - gsm: +46 70 539 64 79 MSN: jonas@widarsson.com ICQ: 72016688 jabber: jonas@widarsson.com >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<