I couldn't agree more! When I first used Qt, I wondered how such a large framework could get along without exceptions. After writing some non-trivial Qt progra

I couldn't agree more! When I first used Qt, I wondered how such a large framework could get along without exceptions. After writing some non-trivial Qt programs, I still noticed that there is really no need for exceptions, except when interfacing non-Qt libraries, where I simply caught and handled the exceptions in a small wrapper. Finally, I got it: Qt uses the Null-Object pattern (not to be confused with Null values!) consistently, which is really in almost all cases the more elegant solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Object_pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Object_pattern