Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: Andy Armstrong
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 11:15 on 29 Jan 2007
On 29 Jan 2007, at 02:01, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> try/catch *is* different from structured flow constructs like while/if
> etc. but similar to wild spaghetti gotos in that you can't see locally
> *or* in fact even statically where the control goes to in case the  
> local
> catches fail.

That encapsulates everything that's wonderful about try / catch :)

That decoupling is incredibly valuable - the fact that you can design  
code that goes *somewhere* when it has a problem without having to  
work out where it actually goes until later.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

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