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

[François Pinard]

> > 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.

[Ralph Corderoy]

> He could have written myprintf, a wrapper around vprintf.

Maybe.  The code had to work with an older system, where there was probably
not such `vprintf'.  In any case, less I see that code, better I feel! :-)
It is part of that push that keeps me close to Python, whenever possible!

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard