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O_o

I fear you misunderstood the context of the "fired" comment, and for that, I apologize.

I reread it now, and I can see how you thought I was attack you.

I was attacking the code example...

^_^

@MutantJohn:

Okay. Well, anduril462 said that beautifully so I couldn't possibly add anything meaningful to it, but I'm going to add some context all the same.

I offer this context for a...

O_o

Yeah, I know why you used `goto'. Fixing a hole with spackling paste is massively simpler than rebuilding the house.

I have no problem throwing away thousands of lines of code, but then,...

O_o

No.

This:



try{throw Something();}
catch(const Something & e){if(e){/* real exception */}else{/* control flow exception */}}

O_o

I've already told you.

(See the time you attempted to transform exceptions into references to be conditionally checked for "nullness".)

In short, you are using the exception mechanism...

O_o

I get that this is hyperbole, but you managed your first `goto' in a language with scoped destruction and real world compilers that don't always follow the standard.

Now, I'm not saying...