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> Exceptions are called exceptions. But they really aren't. They're two concepts conflated together. > They aren't exceptions. They are a way of declaring a ha

> Exceptions are called exceptions. But they really aren't. They're two concepts conflated together. > They aren't exceptions. They are a way of declaring a handler ... Hm, if that's the case, then you described the handling of exceptions, which is distinct from the declaration of the exceptional case as well as the act of throwing or raising the exception. I feel like your comment unhelpfully adds mystique rather than clarifies. I may be holding you to an "unfair" standard though, based on your comment history, of which I am an enthusiastic fan.

jerf 14y ago
It's hard to say "exceptions aren't actually exceptions" without essentially being guilty of equivocation in advance. The important part of my message was where I broke it down in two pieces, neither of which I call exceptions in a desperate and apparently failed attempt to avoid further confusion. Sorry. There's the control flow construct, and there's the use of the control flow construct for handling certain types of errors, and the two get bundled together under one word in a way I think is misleading.