From kde-devel  Mon Dec 05 07:16:24 2005
From: Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 07:16:24 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: C++ exceptions
Message-Id: <200512050816.24903.glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
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On Monday 05 December 2005 05:13, David Johnson wrote:
>
> Exactly. Which is why they shouldn't be in libraries. The application
> author shouldn't be compelled to use a language feature he is not
> comfortable with.

Oh please, handling exceptions isn't that hard, and is much less cumbersome 
than checking a return code (which has not at all the same use, actually).

> A library function that returns an classic error code 
> can be used by both exception and no-exception using applications.

But it you try to handle an error which should be reported by an exception 
through a simple return code, you force the programmer into writing some 
pseudo-exception handling/stack unwinding code.

-- 
Guillaume.
http://www.telegraph-road.org
 
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