"Barry Kelly" <✉eircom.net> wrote in message news:✉4ax.com...
> > 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. >
OK.
> > 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.
<argh> actually I rarely use any of those, I always try to get the error code directly from a call if at all possible. However there are situations where you depend on the above. I think those situations will still be there if you use exceptions, the only difference is that after you've read the error code you raise an exception of your own.
> > You still haven't answered the question. >
I'll try again, in relation to your previous post. (see above)
Kristofer