On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:36:40PM -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 2/18/12 3:25 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > >I'd just like to add to this that we don't lose anything per se by > >introducing specific exception types. > > 1. Technical debt
I don't understand. Could you elaborate? > 2. Set an example that will be followed If it's a *good* example, it should be followed, no? ;-) > 3. Boilerplate [...] Can be alleviated if there's a way to use templates to make exception subclasses. But all of this is just the mechanics of the system. We should rather be debating about the conceptual/theoretic merits at this point, than get hung up about the nitty gritty details. That can come later once we've settled on the right conceptual model. T -- Almost all proofs have bugs, but almost all theorems are true. -- Paul Pedersen
