'self error: ..' considered harmful?

Andrew Greenberg werdna at mucow.com
Sun Nov 6 22:39:48 UTC 2005


In view of the ubiquitousness of the call, does it make more sense to  
rewrite #error to reflect the behavior you would prefer?

On Nov 6, 2005, at 6:05 AM, Cees De Groot wrote:

> I'm not sure whether I mentioned this - but I think one of the more
> useful areas that the Teams could be working on is to get rid of all
> the calls to #error:....
>
> It could be that I'm the only one disturbed by this, but we have at
> least the possibility to work with exception hierarchies, but I find
> myself almost always having to catch Error in exception-handling code,
> because that's all the information that comes out of the basic class
> library...
>




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