Steve has an interesting post about C++ error handling.
At least your codebase, Steve, isn’t full of stuff like this.
catch (…)
{
ASSERT(false);
}
Monthly Archives: July 2005
How not to handle errors.
July 28, 2005 – 11:08 am
Timewasting
July 26, 2005 – 8:36 pm
This is some mildly entertaining stuff if you like brain puzzles.
“We thought of this over beers…”
July 25, 2005 – 1:39 pm
I guess you can imagine the high esteem with which I hold the apache software foundation that, upon reading the first few paragraphs of this project plan I immediately assumed it was genuine?
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Aspects of Joe
July 22, 2005 – 12:39 pm
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you started adding letters to the beginning of the last name Ardent?
You get the many aspects of Joe:
Tour de France
July 11, 2005 – 2:22 pm
Eric Zorn has a a few thoughts on the Tour de France. There is always the homegrown Race Across America, which I think is totally awesome (and exactly the sort of Cannonball Run he describes), but even a staggered start would be interesting. The problem is that you’d have to do a time [...]
A Tale Of Two Headlines
July 10, 2005 – 3:39 pm
A Year And A Half Later or Every Time I Think I’m Out… They Pull Me Back In!
Bloody Cubs. I’ve completely written them off, because I should, because they’re awful, and they go and sweep the suddenly fading Marlins to end the All-Star break on a high note.
However, I won’t be happy with this [...]
Clinton Haircut Story Is A Lie
July 7, 2005 – 6:19 pm
It drives me nuts that this kind of crap still goes around. Since politus did us the favor of finding an authoritative debunking of the rumor that Clinton sat on the runway blocking traffic while he got a haircut, I might as well link to it. Clinton Haircut Story Is A Lie
