Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
6:15 p.m.
From: Ralph Corderoy
if you say above that most people are unfamiliar with
them due to their
use of goto then that's probably wrong
I didn't say that. I was just astonished that in a long thread about handling
exceptional conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions. Clearly, either
unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you point
out, Go does not), or not top of mind.
Noel
10 Mar
10 Mar
7:09 p.m.
New subject: Conditions, AKA exceptions.
Noel Chiappa writes:
I was just astonished that in a long thread about
handling exceptional
conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions. Clearly, either
unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you
point out, Go does not), or not top of mind.
Seems to me exceptions are quite mainstream: CLU, C++, Java, C#,
JavaScript, Python all have them. Arguably Go too, in the form of
panic/recover.
11:15 p.m.
New subject: Conditions, AKA exceptions.
On 3/10/23, Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Seems to me exceptions are quite mainstream: CLU, C++, Java, C#,
JavaScript, Python all have them. Arguably Go too, in the form of
panic/recover.
PL/I had them from the get-go. Microsoft added them as an extension to C.
-Paul W.
7:15 p.m.
New subject: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
Hi Noel,
Thanks for clarifying; I did know it was a possibility.
if you say
above that most people are unfamiliar with them due to
their use of goto then that's probably wrong
I didn't say that. I was just astonished that in a long thread about
handling exceptional
conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions. Clearly, either
unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you
point out, Go does not), or not top of mind.
Or perhaps those happy to use gotos also tend to be those who dislike
exceptions. :-)
Anyway, I'm off-TUHS-pic so follow-ups set to goto COFF.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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