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[David Abrahams]

Ted Baker <baker at cs.fsu.edu> writes:

> Maybe it is time for a language to look at exceptions along the
> same lines, i.e., to build in structures for exceptions that rule
> out the most frequent forms of erroneous usage.

The most frequent forms of erroneous usage are the same ones that crop
up with other error reporting mechanisms.  In other words, writing
exception safe code isn't hard -- writing code that's correct in the
face of "errors" (postcondition failures, really) is hard.

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Dave Abrahams
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