🚀 go-pugleaf

Kent Sandvik <ksand@apple.com> writes:
|[templates] are nice, and exception handling is nice, but when push
|comes to show you could write a really nice application and if the
|application fills a niche, and is a user-experience wonder, it will
|sell, regardless of templates and exception handling.

Christopher Russo <chris_russo@gateway.qm.apple.com> writes:
|I think that we'd all agree that people will find a way to make great
|products no matter what tools they're given.  Further, I'm quite sure
|that you could cut down a large redwood with a butter knife.  Hand me
|the chainsaw tho, would ya?  Certainly you're not suggesting that we
|should have our hands tied so that we can write better software.

I'd like to second Chris' point.  Exception handling is especially
useful in C++ constructors.  Rather than having separate methods to do
the real initialization [since constructors can't fail and don't
return error codes] you could simply do all the real work in the
constructor, sending an exception if something goes wrong.

Templates I can live without [macros will do for now] but exceptions
would really make my coding life easier.

Maybe this should be moved to a non-macapp group?

Reid
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