From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 07:15:50 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230310121550.9A80718C080@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Ralph Corderoy
> if you say above that most people are unfamiliar with them due to their
> use of goto then that's probably wrong
I didn't say that. I was just astonished that in a long thread about handling
exceptional conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions. Clearly, either
unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you point
out, Go does not), or not top of mind.
Noel
next reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-10 12:15 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2023-03-10 13:09 ` [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-10 17:15 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 13:15 ` [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Ralph Corderoy
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