Re: Denial of denial of service

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From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Subject: Re: Denial of denial of service
Date: 12:30 on 29 Jan 2007
Andy Armstrong wrote:
> 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.

Valuable maybe to the original designer of the code; hellish for anyone
coming in later and having to figure out what is going on.




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