Re: Exceptions

[Norbert Nemec]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 04:14:48PM +0000, Lars Hupfeldt Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I compleetely agree that exception usage in the library is not 
> consistent. In general all errors should be exceptions. There might be  
> a few exceptions to this rule, but there is absolutely no reason that 
> the FILE classes should not raise exceptions. And yes, exceptions 
> should be differentiated by class.

I agree, too: Actually, I realized that the new library does not 
contain those exceptions. I don't even recall, was Keith said about 
that. There was talk about Exceptions once.

After all: Exceptions are the method of choice wherever there are 
errors that occur at runtime that can't possibly caught by the compiler 
(IO-Errors etc) For everything else, there should theoretically be a 
compile-time check. Anyhow, theory does not help much here, since many 
things just cant be checked at compile time. Still pre/post-conditions 
and assertions are a better solution here. If the program were 
hypotetically "bug-free", then these should never catch on under any 
conditions and therefore the checking overhead could be dropped in the 
final compilation.

Still: In any case it is much better to raise an exception than to try 
to cope with the situation in a dirty way or leave it up to the user 
(app-programmer) to check for success by hand...

Ciao,
Nobbi

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