On Saturday, 18 February 2012 at 22:35:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
I'd hate to see us have a crippled exception hierarchy just
because some
people mishandle exceptions and simply print out messages on
failure in all
cases. Obviously sometimes that's what you have to do, but
often you can
handle them much better, and that's part of the reason that we
have
_Exception_ and not just Error. And a proper exception
hierarchy can be very
benificial to programmers who actually use it correctly.
+1
Inheritance in general can (and is) misused too. Does that mean
that should also be banned?
Regards,
Ben
