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From: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
To: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
Cc: caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:36:06 +0300 (MSK)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612100933550.545@home.oyster.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612100925060.545@home.oyster.ru>

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, malc wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Brian Hurt wrote:
>
>> 
>> I think I've come to the conclusion that exceptions are bad.
>> 
>> In Ocaml, they're useless in many cases, and in most cases wrong. Avoiding 
>> them generally makes for better code.  There are two vague types of 
>> exceptions- those the program can, and probably should- handle, and those 
>> that the program can't, and probably should even try to, handle.
>>

[..snip..]

And also there is `new' and, to the best of my knowlege, it's not
possible to return a `class option' should one want to dwelve into
O of Caml.

--
vale


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-10  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-10  1:42 Brian Hurt
2006-12-10  2:40 ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2006-12-10  2:51 ` Martin Jambon
2006-12-10  3:35 ` Chris King
2006-12-10  6:32   ` Jon Harrop
2006-12-10 19:07     ` brogoff
2006-12-10 18:04   ` Richard Jones
2006-12-10 23:27     ` Chris King
2006-12-11 15:55       ` Richard Jones
2006-12-15 11:13         ` Frédéric Gava
2006-12-11 17:28     ` Mike Lin
2006-12-11 20:09       ` Richard Jones
2006-12-11 23:38   ` Olivier Andrieu
     [not found]   ` <C841DA73-83D4-4CDD-BF4A-EA803C6D6A08@vub.ac.be>
2006-12-23  4:23     ` Ocaml checked exceptions Chris King
2006-12-10  6:30 ` [Caml-list] Today's inflamatory opinion: exceptions are bad malc
2006-12-10  6:36   ` malc [this message]
2006-12-10  6:56 ` Jon Harrop
2006-12-10  9:51 ` Andreas Rossberg
2006-12-10 11:00   ` Tom
2006-12-10 11:25     ` Andreas Rossberg
2006-12-10 13:27   ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-12-10 19:15     ` Haoyang Wang
2006-12-10 21:43       ` Jean-Christophe Filliatre
2006-12-11 13:10       ` Diego Olivier FERNANDEZ PONS
2006-12-10 18:31   ` Serge Aleynikov

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