[Qt-interest] Qt and C++ exceptions

[Piotr Dobrogost]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> 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.

Ok, when are you going to drop support for MSVC6?
Are you going to introduce exceptions after dropping 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.

Sorry, no logic here.
No offense here, but I hate when someone says something is good just
because it's being used... This way MFC is the best GUI library ever and
there's no need for any other :) This also reminds me of my boss saying
his company is doing ok just because it raises every year. The fact it
could have been raising twice as fast if some decisions were made was an
unthinkable abstraction for him :) It was raising not because it was
properly managed but because whole market was raising...


I totally agree with Maxim; C++ library not using exceptions in the year
2009 (11 years after they were standardized in 1998) is a great mistake.


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Piotr Dobrogost
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ps.
Maxim - don't hijack threads, please.