From kde-devel Wed Aug 15 15:54:15 2001 From: Richard Moore Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:54:15 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Those dern C++ exceptions X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99789086223296 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > Well, the KDE KC reminded me of the discussion again, about whether or not > C++ exceptions have a place in Qt / KDE. Right now I'm at a conference on > software architectures and Tom Cargill was cited as someone who knows > (tm) about exception handling. Of course, this was in the same sentence as > "exceptions are gotos on steroids" and "Dijkstra's 'goto considered bad' > is spot on," so you know that C++ exceptions *in* *general* are going to > be dissed, not just any particular implementation thereof. > > Here's the URL, and that combined with Waldo's sage words should convince, > well, some people: > > http://cseng.aw.com/book/related/0,3833,020163371X+11,00.html Looks like the author has never bothered to learn about some of the newer features of the C++ standard libraries like auto_ptr<> which are there to solve exactly the kind of problems he is talking about. Rich. > > -- > +------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ > + Adriaan de Groot + Project: FRESCoS + > + adridg@cs.kun.nl + Private: adridg@sci.kun.nl + > + Kamer A6020 tel. 024 3652272 + http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/frescos/ + > > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<