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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: C++ exceptions
From:       Michael Buesch <mbuesch () freenet ! de>
Date:       2005-12-05 11:23:24
Message-ID: 200512051223.24282.mbuesch () freenet ! de
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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).
> 
> Here's a link on the pitfalls of exceptions. I didn't write it, so 
> apparently I'm not the only idiot in the world.
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:r1bgFPLiw4QJ:www.octopull.demon.co.uk/c%2B%2B/dragons/+&hl=en&ie=UTF-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.

-- 
Greetings Michael.


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