Entire books, I'm sure, have been written about the pro and cons of exceptions for error handling. Yes, I called it "idiomatic C++" before, but reasonable peop

Entire books, I'm sure, have been written about the pro and cons of exceptions for error handling. Yes, I called it "idiomatic C++" before, but reasonable people disagree about the best option. Smarter people than me have written good things in the E section of the C++ Core Guidelines. The people involved have overlap with the C++ standards committee: http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#S-errors http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines#... At least if you use exceptions for errors C++ doesn't need "finally", because it has working RAII, unlike Java.