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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Those dern C++ exceptions
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-08-15 15:54:15
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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.

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