Re: Denial of denial of service

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* Peter da Silva <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> [2007-01-29 13:20]:
> That encapsulates everything that's hateful about try/catch.

That's because error handling, while indisputably required, is
hateful. I haven't seen an approach for doing it that doesn't
degenerate into an unmaintainable mess if you even so much as
think about pushing it. Any form of in-band handling (eg. return
codes) clutters up the code to the point of unreadability; any
form out of out-of-band handling (eg. exceptions) obfuscates
control flow and scatters related code around to the point of
unreadability. You cannot win.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;

• Peter da Silva 12:15 on 29 Jan 2007
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• Jarkko Hietaniemi 12:30 on 29 Jan 2007
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