John Cowan writes:
> Karl Waclawek scripsit:
>
> > I agree. It would be nice, however, if SAX for instance allowed
> > an application to stop parsing (based on an event) without
> > having to throw an exception.
>
> What's wrong with exceptions? This kind of thing, abandoning an action,
> is what they were made for. If one of your SAX handlers decides that
> there is no point in reading further, create an AllDoneException packaged
> inside a SAXException, and away we go.
Quite right. Exceptions in C++ can be deeply evil, but in Java,
they're a natural part of the language and a good measure of how
comfortable a programmer is working in it.
All the best,
David
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