"Barry Kelly" <✉eircom.net> wrote in message news:✉4ax.com...
> And how are you going to perform this differently in the absence of > exceptions; that is, using a motley collection error codes and ragbag > global variables, scattered hither and thither, every second statement a > check for error conditions?
Excuse me, but error codes and local variables are not inherently 'motley' or 'ragbag'. Not sure where you have the 'globals' from.
Kristofer