"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:jhpqdj$30t6$1...@digitalmars.com... > (Also, having a large number of exception types is going to produce a lot > of program size bloat. Remember, for EVERY class type, you've got the > vtbl[], the .init data, and the TypeInfo. Going to town on exception types > can really add this up.)
As a counterpoint: With a standard exception heirachy in some cases executable size will be decreased, because it will reduce the number of libraries inventing their own similar heirachy.