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> reinvent exceptions as well with longjmp. What a bizarre way to phrase it. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Exceptions are just a "reinvention" of long
by enriquto 6y ago
> reinvent exceptions as well with longjmp.
What a bizarre way to phrase it. Shouldn't it be the other way round? Exceptions are just a "reinvention" of longjmp under a different name (yet identically noxious to program readability).
- richardwhiuk 6y agoExceptions are a programming flow control concept. longjump is a specific family of processor op codes. This is the same idea that while loops are implemented using goto.