Who needs exceptions (was Re: Two languages, too similar, competing in the same space.)

[Steve Lamb]

On 02 Jan 2002 09:11:55 -0500, François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
> I remember having worked in some C code in which the original programmer
> tested the return value of each and every `printf', with appropriate error
> reporting.  This yielded code which is noisy, hard to read, and irritating
> to maintain.

    Ok, I'll bite, how did he report an error without getting into endless
recursion of checking for errors?

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