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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
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 13:15:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230310131512.891A8212A8@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230310121550.9A80718C080@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

Hi Noel,

> > 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.

Thanks for clarifying; I did know it was a possibility.

> 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.

Or perhaps those happy to use gotos also tend to be those who dislike
exceptions.  :-)

Anyway, I'm off-TUHS-pic so follow-ups set to goto COFF.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 12:15 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 13:09 ` [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions Lars Brinkhoff
2023-03-10 17:15   ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 13:15 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]

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