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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
Subject: Re: OT: A bit  of Sudoku
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:18:48 -0700
Date: 2014-06-05T12:18:48-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lmqfqo$rj7$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lmqeoe$o76$1@dont-email.me>

On 06/05/2014 12:00 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> On the contrary, I think exception are perfectly appropriate for that:
> they allow to unwind the call stack directly up to the point where you
> want to catch it by providing a handler.
>
> I know that not everybody likes this idea, but to me exceptions are a
> powerful programming structure, not limited to handling errors.

As the name indicates, exceptions are for exceptional situations. Finding a 
solution doesn't seem exceptional for a solver.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"If you think you got a nasty taunting this time,
you ain't heard nothing yet!"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-05 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-05 17:49 OT: A bit of Sudoku Mike H
2014-06-05 18:30 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-05 19:00   ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-05 19:18     ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2014-06-05 19:43       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-05 20:05     ` Mike H
2014-06-05 23:12     ` Robert A Duff
2014-06-05 23:39       ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-06  7:51         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-06  9:21           ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-06-06 13:38             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-06 15:47           ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-06 17:09             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-07  6:03             ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-06 14:13         ` Brad Moore
2014-06-13  0:21     ` Shark8
2014-06-13  6:30       ` J-P. Rosen
2014-06-13 10:10       ` Mike H
2014-06-13 12:37         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-06-13 15:47         ` Shark8
2014-06-05 20:03   ` Mike H
2014-06-05 20:40     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-06-06  9:10       ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-06-06 10:59         ` Mike H
2014-06-06 16:06         ` Adam Beneschan
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