Re: Denial of denial of service

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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:34 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> 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.

Amen.

Martin.

• A. Pagaltzis 12:34 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Martin Ebourne 12:37 on 29 Jan 2007
• Andy Armstrong 13:00 on 29 Jan 2007
  • Peter da Silva 15:21 on 29 Jan 2007
    • Andy Armstrong 15:50 on 29 Jan 2007

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