> Exceptions are not "most of C++ capabilities". To add to this point: There are C++ frameworks such as Qt who don't use exceptions at all! And what impressed

> Exceptions are not "most of C++ capabilities". To add to this point: There are C++ frameworks such as Qt who don't use exceptions at all! And what impressed most: When writing a Qt application, you don't even miss exceptions. You don't have to resort to C-style return value checking all over your code. How is that? It took me some time to figure this out, but I believe it is because Qt applies the "Null Object" pattern consequently - down to the deepest depth of their framework,