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: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: piercarl@sabi.demon.co.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ? Date: 1997/01/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 210762055 x-nntp-posting-host: sabi.demon.co.uk x-disclaimer: Contents reflect my personal views only references: <5acjtn$5uj@news3.digex.net> <32dd9fc8.262114963@news.sprynet.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Home's where my rucksack's mime-version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94) newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.software-eng Date: 1997-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>> "lgmayka" == Lawrence G Mayka writes: lgmayka> bs@research.att.com (Valerie Torres) wrote: bs> In the area of exceptions, C++ may have added something important: bs> C++ exceptions can be of arbitrary type and inheritance is taken bs> into account when catching an exception. This provides important bs> possibilities for grouping exceptions that I don't know precedence bs> for (though the need for grouping has been known for decades). lgmayka> The use of inheritance in defining and handling conditions lgmayka> dates at least back to Symbolics' New Error System, circa 1984, lgmayka> which was the forerunner of the Pittman Condition System, circa lgmayka> 1985. The latter quickly found its way into the other lgmayka> commercial Common Lisp implementations and was incorporated lgmayka> into ANSI Common Lisp. Unfortunately exceptions-as-object is a bad idea, and claiming priority for bad ideas is hardly a sport worth engaging into. :-)