Re: Throwing error is potentially buggy

From:
red floyd <redfloyd@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:39:53 CST
Message-ID:
<47cb9822-fe01-48d0-b409-e86f8ef14785@e28g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>
On Jun 3, 6:30 am, w...@seed.net.tw wrote:

But I assumed the already general practice: thrown object can be
legally missed and caught in a top-top function. Isn't is true it
can
be mis-interpreted?


Only if you don't catch it. See sample below.

For Francis Glassborow, if it is the most naive programmer using
only std::exception, then what's the practical alternative coding
standard?


Derive from std::exception, and throw those

e.g.:

class receive_error : public std::exception { ... };
class send_error : public std::exception { ... };
class processing_error : public std::exception { ... };

initialize();
while (true) {
   try {
     Message msg,out;
     receive(msg);
     process(msg,out);
     send(out);
   }
   catch (receive_error& e) {
     // receive() barfed
   }
   catch (processing_error& e) {
     // process() barfed
   }
   catch (send_error& e) {
     // send() barfed
   }
   // other exceptions propagate out
}

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