> Exceptions considered harmful: 
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/13> .html

That's an interesting article that totally misses an importnat point. It
is not the 'goto' that is (was) considered most harmfull, but the label
it jumps to. When you read code you can easily spot a goto, note the
label, and see where it will jump to: when you found the label you are
done. The reverse is not true: when you see a lable, you will have to
search the total scope op that label and find *all* goto's that use this
label. This asymmetry could be worded as 'come-from considered
harmfull'.

Maybe I should check Dijkstra's grave to see whether he turns areound in
anger (I am not sure this Dutch proverb translates to english?).

Oh, and for the 'add an extra parameter and check that' argument: how do
you add an extra parameter to a diadic infix operator, and how do you
check that value in the middle of an expression?

Wouter van Ooijen

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