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

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi François,

> 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.

He could have written myprintf, a wrapper around vprintf.

Cheers,


Ralph.