Re: [unclassified] Re: resumable exceptions

2006-06-17 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I was involved in the C++ standardization process, and argued for resumption as opposed to termination only in exceptions. I was somewhat of a pioneer, implementing C++ exceptions for my team to use before commercial compilers had them. After all, why start a new project with an old

Re: [unclassified] Re: resumable exceptions

2006-06-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:51:24PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: : Anyway, as passionate as I was about resumption, or at least making it : not impossible to implement resumption, at the next ANSI meeting the : terminate-only camp made compelling arguments. Well, interestingly, I used to be in