RE: FW: Exceptions are too return values!

[Hans Aberg]

At 11:06 +0200 98/06/16, Erik Zuurbier wrote:
>... Exceptions are merely a way to structure
>the code, so that the main line and error handling can be neatly separated.

  This is the original idea, but I pointed out that exceptions are in fact
much deeper: They can be used as a programming technique too, and further,
many common language constructs (such as "return", "break", etc in C++) can
be viewed  as special cases of exception handling.

  Hans Aberg
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