Another slightly edited post from my old C++ blog. Again, you may have seen this one before.

This post is a quasi follow-up to the  “little exception shop of horrors”_. As I mentioned in that post, I believe the reason for dumping all the exception handling code into a single header file was a misguided attempt at avoiding code duplication. No, I didn’t write that code, so I can only speculate as to why it was done. I inherited the project that contained this code and the reasons were lost in the mists of time. I did file it under “sound idea but bad execution”. It doesn’t fix the problem and you still have code duplication as the preprocessor will do the duplication work for you. Ah well, at least to don’t have to type the code in yourself multiple times. I couldn’t help but think that there must be a better way.

This post first appeared on my old C++ blog. You might have seen it before.

I think by now we can all agree that exceptions are generally a good thing in C++. They allow us to separate the error handling from the general flow of control inside a program and also enable us to handle errors at the most appropriate point. More often than not, the best point to handle errors is quite far removed from the source of the exception.