--===============0438752417== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8466964.hfUraemnxt"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart8466964.hfUraemnxt Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 05 December 2005 08:38, David Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 11:16 pm, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > > 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). >=20 > Here's a link on the pitfalls of exceptions. I didn't write it, so=20 > apparently I'm not the only idiot in the world. >=20 > http://www.google.com/search?q=3Dcache:r1bgFPLiw4QJ:www.octopull.demon.co= =2Euk/c%2B%2B/dragons/+&hl=3Den&ie=3DUTF-8 Although my opinion might not count much here, I think the exceptions are one of the big _misfeatures_ of the C++ language. They bloat code. Nothing else. Everything done with exceptions, can be done with normal return codes. =2D-=20 Greetings Michael. --nextPart8466964.hfUraemnxt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDlCMslb09HEdWDKgRAnAuAJ9LTXNpMFfCiq65RUZyTHpGZbyaOACfeu/2 sWh//j7eZJurHFEfDS4WSeY= =uYPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8466964.hfUraemnxt-- --===============0438752417== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============0438752417==--