* Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> [2007-01-29 13:20]: > That encapsulates everything that's hateful about try/catch.
That's because error handling, while indisputably required, is hateful. I haven't seen an approach for doing it that doesn't degenerate into an unmaintainable mess if you even so much as think about pushing it. Any form of in-band handling (eg. return codes) clutters up the code to the point of unreadability; any form out of out-of-band handling (eg. exceptions) obfuscates control flow and scatters related code around to the point of unreadability. You cannot win. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
