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> There are only languages where exceptions need to be hand-rolled in an ad-hoc fashion. This ad-hoc approach does not work. C has no exceptions. It seems to b
by speedplane 8y ago
> There are only languages where exceptions need to be hand-rolled in an ad-hoc fashion. This ad-hoc approach does not work.
C has no exceptions. It seems to be quite successful.
- jcelerier 8y agoWell no, every time you have a chain of functions in your call stack that all do if(f(blah) != E_OK) { return E_WHATEVER; } (which is veeeery common in C) you are reimplementing exceptions by hand (and with less performance in the no-error case since you still pay for the branches, while a C++ code with exceptions would just be a sequence of function calls without branches in that case)
- speedplane 8y agoI wouldn't disagree with you. The OP said that programming languages w/o exceptions aren't successful. C doesn't use exceptions, it has it's own way of dealing with similar issues, and yet it's quite successful.