[COFF] [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)

[Bakul Shah]

I should add that (compared to goto or setjmp/longjmp), by making exceptions a language thing, the compiler can attach more context to the exception event (or condition). In the scheme I outlined, the vendor library function must declare what exceptions it doesn’t handle and the compiler can pass more context that may not make sense to a library user but may help its developer pinpoint the cause.

> On Mar 10, 2023, at 9:28 AM, segaloco <segaloco at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> If nothing else, I could provide much better stack traces to vendors when I'm particularly stuck on something and convinced it isn't my fault. Maybe such a thing exists in C# but I've never gone looking for it, all I know is catching an exception from some vendor library with zero useful information makes me want to take a hammer to much more than the code...