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On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:39 -0500, Sean Conner wrote: > I don't like throw/catch because it's a form of GOTO, only the target of > the GOTO isn't implicitely specified (it's more of a COMEFROM than a GOTO, > and even then, where you are implicitely coming from isn't stated). Oh come on, if you carry on like that then while, if, switch, or indeed any program flow construct is a goto. Well, at the machine level they are of course, but thinking of them like that at the language level will do you no favours. It's a long time since compilers implemented try blocks using setjmp/longjmp (spit) you know. Cheers, Martin.There's stuff above here
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