Who needs exceptions (was Re: Two languages, too similar, competing in the same space.)

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 00:30:29 -0000
Steve Lamb <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> wrote:

> On 02 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0500, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>
> wrote:
> > I remember having worked in some C code in which the original
programmer
> > tested the return value of each and every `printf', with appropriate
error
> > reporting.  This yielded code which is noisy, hard to read, and
irritating
> > to maintain.
> 
>     Ok, I'll bite, how did he report an error without getting into
endless
> recursion of checking for errors?

Then again, he never said he /reported/ the error ;-)

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