"Barry Kelly" <✉eircom.net> wrote in message
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> > >
> > > [... about state recovery ... ]
>
> It isn't very difficult in Object Pascal with correct use of
> try..finally.

For simple things I agree (e.g. reclaiming a chunk of memory, closing a
file etc). However in more complex state machines, an unhandled exception
generally means "game over" unless you add a *lot* of recovery code.


I think the main problem is that we are talking about different
approaches to error handling driven by different application areas. For
99% of the Delphi community, program-level fault tolerance is apparently
irrelevant in practice.

> Specification of anticipated exceptions is a misguided dead-end.

Discussed before - you know my views on this.

> Unfortunately, error codes can make code all but unreadable.

As can exception handling geared towards error containment and recovery
when there are no error codes available.


Kristofer