Re: why exceptions?
Paavo Helde wrote:
No offense, but the language would be Turing complete also without
exceptions
So what? My washing machine is Turing complete. That doesn't really
say much.
so one could certainly do the error checking otherwise as
well (requires redesign of whole STL, of course). E.g.:
std::vector<MyClass> v(something.begin(), something.end());
if (!something.is_good() || !v.good()) {
this->is_good = false;
return;
}
It would be a bit cumbersome for 'something' to know that some of its
elements (which it knows next to nothing about) encountered an error
while being copied to another container.
int errorcode=0;
std::vector<MyClass> v(something.begin(&errorcode), something.end
(&errorcode), &errorcode);
if (errorcode!=0) {
return errorcode;
}
It would be equally cumbersome for the iterators in 'something' to
know this about the objects which they are pointing to (which they still
know next to nothing about).
if (something.empty()) {
std::cerr << "precondition broken\n";
exit(1);
}
Why would 'something' empty itself if copying some of the elements failed?
// std::vector ctor will exit(1) by itself if something wrong
std::vector<MyClass> v(something.begin(), something.end());
Hard to do something specific to this error if it just calls exit(1).
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