Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> At 07:23 PM 5/13/2005 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Sorry about that (I was in a hurry this morning). It was here:
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
>
> "Wrong" is an excellent title for that article; it's completely
> wrongheaded about exceptions. :) Great basic idea (make wrong code
> look wrong), but for all practical purposes the actual specific advice
> in the article is only meaningful for C, where you can't create real
> types and there are no exceptions. In Python, there are *much* saner
> solutions to his strawman problems.
I have to agree. However, having had to deal with C++'s excuse for exceptions
(and the effects of C programmers being let loose on them), I can understand
where he is coming from.
And the basic idea of flow control you can't see being a potential problem is
sound. For exceptions in general, the benefits are worth the costs, but I don't
think the same can be said for allowing statement templates the power to
suppress them.
Cheers,
Nick.
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