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   From: pete@versatilecoding.com   
      
   On 2011-11-04 23:26:40 +0000, Castor Nageur said:   
      
   > On 4 nov, 00:51, Pete Becker  wrote:   
   >   
   >> So, when you change these functions to return error codes, your   
   >> developers will no longer forget to catch exceptions but, instead, will   
   >> forget to check error codes and the applications will still crash.   
   >   
   > Of course, you are right but my boss asked me to wrap the exception   
   > throwing code so errors are returned and not thrown anymore.   
   > It seems that many people dislike exceptions and prefer testing error   
   > codes returned by the methods.   
      
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