On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:10:50 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:15:25 +0530, Dark Cowherd wrote: > >> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2003/10/13.html > > Joel Spolsky might be a great C++ programmer, and his advice on user > interface design is invaluable, but Python is not C++ or Java, and his > arguments about exceptions do not hold in Python.
Of course, his arguments do not even "hold" in C++ or Java, in the sense that everyone should be expected to accept them. Most C++ programmers would find his view on exceptions slightly ... exotic. He has a point though: exceptions suck. But so do error codes. Error handling is difficult and deadly boring. (Then there's the debate about using exceptions for handling things that aren't really errors, and what the term 'error' really means ...) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <jgrahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ algonet.se> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
