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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Code flow control
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:03:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <skcfp6$j19$1@gioia.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: skcesm$sgf$1@dont-email.me

On 2021-10-15 19:48, J-P. Rosen wrote:

> Some people reserve exceptions for signalling errors. I regard them as a 
> way to handle "exceptional" situations, i.e. when the normal flow of 
> control cannot continue. For example, in a deep recursive search, they 
> are handy to stop the recursion and go back to top level when you have 
> found what you were looking for. Some would disagree with that.

I strongly believe that this is the only consistent way to treat exceptions.

What I do wish is carefully designed exception contracts in Ada.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-15 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-15 15:08 Code flow control Kevin Chadwick
2021-10-15 17:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2021-10-15 18:03   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2021-10-15 19:19     ` Kevin Chadwick
2021-10-15 20:02     ` G.B.
2021-10-15 21:30       ` Kevin Chadwick
2021-10-15 22:51         ` Randy Brukardt
2021-10-16  7:50       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2021-10-16 13:26         ` Kevin Chadwick
2021-11-26 13:44           ` Kevin Chadwick
2021-10-15 17:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2021-10-15 23:30 ` Roger Mc
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