Leandro Lucarella, el 9 de junio a las 11:37 me escribiste: > Pelle, el 9 de junio a las 13:28 me escribiste: > > >Yes, I agree that "safety" is the best argument in favour of exceptions > > >(as explicitness is the best argument in favour of no-exceptions). The > > >Python Zen put it this way: > > > > > >Errors should never pass silently. > > >Unless explicitly silenced. > > > > > >That's what I like the most about exceptions. I think try/catch is > > >really ugly though. There has to be something better. > > > > Careful use of scope(exit) and simply avoiding catching exceptions > > works well for me. Except when you have to catch, of course. :) > > I'm talking precisely about the case when you have to catch. In that > case I think the resulting code is uglier and more convoluted than the > code to manage errors by returning error codes or similar.
BTW, here is a PhD thesis with a case against exceptions. I didn't read it (just have a peek) and it's rather old (1982), so it might be not that interesting, but I thought posting it here as the thread became mostly about exceptions and someone might be interested =) http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~black/publications/Black%20D.%20Phil%20Thesis.pdf -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Every 5 minutes an area of rainforest the size of a foot ball field Is eliminated
