Re: Exceptions Class...
On Jan 31, 1:38 pm, TheGunslinger <mikiesrunsbaal....@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
I am trying to understand exception classes in C++.
By comparison, JAVA offers a generic exceptions class.
I am unable to find a similar class in C++?
Is this because it doesn't exist?
Not with the restrictions you have in Java. In principle, you
can throw anything you wish---any class, but also an enum,
a double or an int.
What little I have found in my reference texts suggests that the
programmer writes his own exceptions class specific to the type of
exceptions expected within the program.
As such, every programmer has to re-invent the wheel by re-writing an
exceptions class for personal use or for each program?
The standard defines a hierarchy of exceptions, starting with
std::exception. In practice, a good program will probably not
make use of any exceptions which don't derive from
std::exception, but there are exceptions---throwing an int to
terminate is a reasonable convention, for example, provided the
author of main is aware of it.
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