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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
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Date: Wed,  7 May 2003 06:21:23 +0200
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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
> It's much, much easier when the library functions throw
> exceptions.  That way the application can handle them any
> way it wants (or allow default handling to occur, normally
> a fatal error), and the same utility library can be used
> unchanged with any application.

hmm, exceptions can be a nightmare, if they turn out to be
a 'nasty set of  nested non local gotos' -- ouch.

but if they're done 'right', then ok ...

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