"Wojtek Narczynski" a �crit dans le message de news:5ad0dd8a.0305280507.57bd5a16@posting.google.com... > Hyman Rosen wrote in message news:<1054062833.558791@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>... > > Wojtek Narczynski wrote: > > > But the situation where you cannot rely on the compiler to check > > > wether you did not forget to put an exception handler in isn't good > > > either. > > > > Yes it is. > > So it's good to have the compiler check types and ranges, but it's not > good to check exception propagation patterns. All clear, thank you. Exceptions are for unexpected events. As the saying goes: "Once you've taken care of the unexpected, consider the unexpected unexpected". The nice things with exceptions as they are is that they allow you to deal with the unexpected unexpected. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr