Re: Computation of exception handling

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@gecm.com> writes:

> > There is nothing wrong. This is _strictly_ equivalent to raising
> > an exception with the same identifier, at least at formal level.
> > The difference is _strictly_ syntactic. More often, the program is
> > simply less complex with exceptions that with report codes.

> but you can't use exceptions if your system has to be 'safe' (no
> mention of that in the original question).

The problem without exceptions is that people forget to check for
error conditions.  (C programmers using the POSIX API make this
mistake quite often.)