Re: Should you use Exceptions(throw-try-catch)?
"Bruno van Dooren [MVP VC++]" <bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com> wrote
in message news:B7C2D6E4-785A-4D5D-BF89-DB92777C4A14@microsoft.com...
mr.sir bossman wrote:
I was looking more for the pros/cons.
Like so:
http://www.gotw.ca/publications/mill22.htm
This documents why exception specifications are a bad idea.
Using exceptions is a good idea nonetheless, as it allows separating
error-handling from the normal application logic.
It depends. If you have code that needs a lot of cleanup if certain things
go wrong, it might be easier to work with return value error handling
rather
than exception handling.
Otherwise you'd have to implement RAII for each step that needs undo'ing.
This is can be a lot of work that is not always worth it.
Cleanup with destructors is best regardless of having exceptions or not.
It's much less fragile, even if another return is added later from the
middle of the function, the cleanup still runs.
Another situation is if you create a native DLL with exported functions.
The
exported functions themselves should always return error codes because
there
are a lot of nasty consequences if you throw exceptions across module
boundaries.
--
Kind regards,
Bruno.
bruno_nos_pam_van_dooren@hotmail.com
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