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- From: Reid Ellis <rae@Alias.com>
- Subject: Re: Defections from BedRock?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.153939.13992@alias.com>
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- Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
- References: <1993Jan14.175452.8591@netcom.com> <34677@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:39:39 GMT
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- Kent Sandvik <ksand@apple.com> writes:
- |[templates] are nice, and exception handling is nice, but when push
- |comes to show you could write a really nice application and if the
- |application fills a niche, and is a user-experience wonder, it will
- |sell, regardless of templates and exception handling.
-
- Christopher Russo <chris_russo@gateway.qm.apple.com> writes:
- |I think that we'd all agree that people will find a way to make great
- |products no matter what tools they're given. Further, I'm quite sure
- |that you could cut down a large redwood with a butter knife. Hand me
- |the chainsaw tho, would ya? Certainly you're not suggesting that we
- |should have our hands tied so that we can write better software.
-
- I'd like to second Chris' point. Exception handling is especially
- useful in C++ constructors. Rather than having separate methods to do
- the real initialization [since constructors can't fail and don't
- return error codes] you could simply do all the real work in the
- constructor, sending an exception if something goes wrong.
-
- Templates I can live without [macros will do for now] but exceptions
- would really make my coding life easier.
-
- Maybe this should be moved to a non-macapp group?
-
- Reid
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