In article <3b7d9f9e_2@dnews>
	"Kristofer Skaug" <✉skaug.demon.nl> wrote:

> "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'.

My point is that exceptions are unified; they all descend from
Exception, they have a standardized handling mechanism.


I was just trying to use some literary devices to illustrate their
varying pedigrees, and their inherent disunity.


No offence intended.

> Not sure where you have the 'globals' from.

Thread-local global variables; IOResult, GetLastError, while functions,
are effectively read-only global variables; consider also SetLastError.


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You still haven't answered the question.


-- Barry