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Chris Uppal  
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 More options Sep 28 2012, 3:09 am
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From: "Chris Uppal" <chris.up...@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:07:25 +0100
Local: Fri, Sep 28 2012 3:07 am
Subject: Re: etiology of exceptions
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bob wrote:
> What is the etiology of exceptions?  Did they come about because people
> got tired of having to check a return value every time they called a
> function?

If you're interested in the history, you might read:

    Goodenough J. B.: Exception Handling: Issues and a Proposed Notation.
    CACM 1975, vol 18, number 12

and several of the references look relevant too.

Can be got from:

    http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~weimer/2007-615/reading/goodenough-except...

    -- chris


 
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