Re: I keep running into long term c++ programmers who refuse to use exceptions
"Martin B." <0xCDCDCDCD@gmx.at> wrote:
Daniel T. wrote:
Seungbeom Kim <musiphil@bawi.org> wrote:
Daniel T. wrote:
If I had to distill it in one sentence, I might say something like,
"all thrown exceptions should cause the program to shutdown/reset,
possibly saving/cleaning up issues along the way."
If I wanted to shutdown/reset on errors, why use exceptions? I can
just call some error-handler (that may save something) and then call
exit(1). I don't need exceptions for that.
If you are writing a program using some library, and it just up and
decided to call an internal error handler and exit, I expect you would
be rather upset with the library provider, but I could be wrong. I know
I would be rather upset.
You statements seem to imply that you think that exceptions in C++ are
something fundamentally different from the Exceptions people know from
Java (or C#, or Python, or ...). Performance, usage and
non/existing-undefined-behaviour issues aside, I view them as the same
thing. I use them for errors(widely defined) than *can* be handled by
the program without a need to shutdown the program but that do not
belong to the normal control flow.
"If an exception is expected and caught so that it has no bad effects on
the behavior of the program, then how can it be an error?" -- Stroustrup
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