[Qt-interest] Qt and C++ exceptions

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 23.05.09 11:59:33, Maxim Egorov wrote:
> Why qt does not use exceptions? This is a very powerful mechanism
> which allows to significantly simplify the processing of errors and
> create more reliable software. I have read
> http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/pages/CodingConventions and was amazed. I
> think this is a very strange decision. It seems to me that so hard to
> find C + + compiler does not support exceptions.

Then you apparently never came across MSVC6, that compiler is just soo
strange in what it accepts as proper source and what not, its a mystery
to me that people paid money for it.

> So I think it would
> be wise to consider support for exceptions to be one of the most
> important tasks.

Well, Qt lives quite some time without exceptions and even grew quite a
bit in that time. So apparently there hasn't been an extensive need for
exceptions thus far, so no urgend need to introduce them now.

Andreas

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