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Discussion on: Elegant Error Handling with C++

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Mukit, Ataul • Edited

Some may argue for throw .. catch and exception handling as a way for error handling, but my point of view is :
for functions which have equal chance of failure as success, exception handling is not the way to go

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Marek Dabek

throw catch exception should not be used as a replacement to the regular error handling. In the below presentation Bjarne describes rules for using error-codes and exceptions he is following:

youtu.be/VoHOLDdfDhk?t=2714