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- From: mcorcora@ix.netcom.com(Marian Corcoran )
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: RE: Use of EH (was Good Books on Exception Handling)
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 05:50:00 GMT
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- In <4df1o7$357@dub-news-svc-5.compuserve.com>
- <76525.3703@compuserve.com> writes:
- >
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- You might also try Design and Evolution of C++ ( D & E )
- pp. 383-398, which gives the background of exception
- handling and why certain decisions were made in designing
- it for use in C++.
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- Exception handling should be used for "exceptional" circumstances. One
- still should use error handling routines. ADA has exception handling
- "turned on" all the time, causing a run-time overhead. C++'s
- improvement was to introduce a try block so it would only be used when
- necessary.
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- Marian
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