From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2004-06-30T06:59:35+09:00
Subject: Re: system() shouldn't throw exceptions, should it?

On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 17:18, Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
> I think that throwing an exception is a much more appropriate and
> idiomatic way to handle errors than just silently failing. If it's
> going to break a lot of your code, though, why not use something like

I agree. It would have been better to throw exceptions, and I can easily 
change my code to handle either case, as you suggest.

But...

I guess I was a bit suprised that this fundamental behaviour was changed; It 
obviously breaks backwards compatibility with previous versions; It broke at 
least one of my apps and I'll have to audit the rest. Many existing apps 
_will_be_broken_ by this change.

Hence my question: Assuming the change is intentional, when will it appear in 
a release (this cropped up with somebody using a nightly snapshot)

Andrew Walrond