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Re: The subsetting has begun

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• Subject: Re: The subsetting has begun
• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:33:33 -0500
• In-reply-to: <E18mHLz-0005pa-00@m...>
• References: <001301c2d9be$34a09cf0$0207a8c0@karl><E18mHLz-0005pa-00@m...>

John Cowan writes:

 > Karl Waclawek scripsit:
 > 
 > > I agree. It would be nice, however, if SAX for instance allowed
 > > an application to stop parsing (based on an event) without 
 > > having to throw an exception.
 > 
 > What's wrong with exceptions?  This kind of thing, abandoning an action,
 > is what they were made for.  If one of your SAX handlers decides that
 > there is no point in reading further, create an AllDoneException packaged
 > inside a SAXException, and away we go.

Quite right.  Exceptions in C++ can be deeply evil, but in Java,
they're a natural part of the language and a good measure of how
comfortable a programmer is working in it.


All the best,


David

-- 
David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/

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