On 6/30/07, wouter van ooijen wrote: > > 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'. > But it seems to me that exceptions are more like "come-from" than "go-to". That is, you see clearly where the exception is handled, but you don't know where it is thrown. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@midwesttelecine.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist