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

Ralph Corderoy ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Fri Mar 10 23:15:12 AEST 2023


Hi Noel,

> > if you say above that most people are unfamiliar with them due to
> > their use of goto then that's probably wrong
>
> I didn't say that.

Thanks for clarifying; I did know it was a possibility.

> I was just astonished that in a long thread about handling exceptional
> conditions, nobody had mentioned . . . exceptions.  Clearly, either
> unfamiliarity (perhaps because not many laguages provide them - as you
> point out, Go does not), or not top of mind.

Or perhaps those happy to use gotos also tend to be those who dislike
exceptions.  :-)

Anyway, I'm off-TUHS-pic so follow-ups set to goto COFF.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.


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