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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.There's stuff above here
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