Re: Goto inside a call statement?

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
James Giles wrote:

One of the reasons I don't like the exception handling features of
most other languages is that they don't even mention the possibility
of error locally. That is, if A calls B which then calls C, and an
exception occurs in C there will be no indication in the source
code of B that C's return will be to some handler in A.

Look at Java. [...]

Indeed. Readers of this thread might benefit from reading:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/advantages.html

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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