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From: Francesco Fantauzzi <mapgfgf@brunel.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: What Should An Exception Handling Do?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 13:53:37 GMT
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shang@corp.mot.com (David L. Shang) wrote:
>
> [...]
>But, most exception handling mechanisms focus on the second case,
>which makes exception handling very complicated for recovery. (C++
>even gives up recovery.) [...]

 ^^^^^------- This isn't really true (if I have understood what you 
mean). You can read a dissertation about that in "The Design and 
Evolution of C++", by B.S.

Francesco G. Fantauzzi