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Exceptions

Posted by richard on January 10, 2001 at 10:20 PM

Hi

Just to re-inforce what was said earlier from the design point of view using exceptions. If I create an exception class it has only the two constructors inherited from the super class - it does not need to have any functionality itself, therefore no data members or methods of its own. It is effectively a way of flagging errors from one part of a Class to another, or to another class.

For the cyclic dependency issue, I agree, it is a design issue which (or so I've always imagined) it is better to resolve by altering the design (as the Irishman said when asked for directions: "if I was going there, I wouldn't start from here").

Apologies to all Irish people! Hope this helps...

Richard