From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: doylep@ecf.toronto.edu (Patrick Doyle) Subject: Re: Exceptions as objects (was Re: What is wrong with OO ?) Date: 1997/02/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 215113214 x-nntp-posting-host: spark1.ecf sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <5d93d3$nhs$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <5dds5b$gcs@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <01bc14ab$3ce476e0$752d54c7@vbykov.hip.cam.org> organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bc14ab$3ce476e0$752d54c7@vbykov.hip.cam.org>, Vassili Bykov wrote: > >Control constructs cannot *in principle* be a part of the standard library. >(Unless you take Lisp or Scheme and consider macros as part of the >library--which, strictly speaking, they are not). Why is that? -- -- Patrick Doyle doylep@ecf.utoronto.ca