Re: The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Martin Nowak]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:29:32 +0100, H. S. Teoh <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:15:19PM -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[...]
A more debatable aspect of exceptions is the first-match rule in
catch blocks. All of OOP goes with best match, except here. But then
all code is together so the effect is small.

Does it make sense to make it best-match? Or is that too risky since
everyone expects it to be first-match?


Catch statements that are not in best-match order are a compile time  
error, g++ does that as a warning too.