Hi Mathias, >>Of course, the advantage of using exceptions is that they can transport >>additional (polymorphic) information about what went wrong... > > And its biggest disadvantage is that it breaks the code in languages > that have no concept to deal with them as e.g. OOo Basic. > > That doesn't mean we shouldn't use exceptions but we should perhaps use > them less enthusiastically as we did in the past.
Or we should perhaps fix our broken language bindings, which can't make use of exceptions, which finally are a very basic UNO concept. > Especially as the advantage you outlined is used only rarely. I don't think that lazyness of developers is a good argument here :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
