Research breakthrough from the Haskell team

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
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> Bruno Medeiros Wrote:
>
>> On 04/12/2010 12:30, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>
>> I wonder what he means with the "It would be funny if it weren't already
>> happening even at the top software companies (how modern are the Google
>> coding standards?)". Like, are they banning some stuff from C++ or other
>> languages that they perceive as "highbrow" ?
>
> Exceptions are banned for pragmatic reasons--some of the Google code is 
> not exception safe and it would be too difficult to change it.  I can't 
> recall the policy on templates offhand.

Yes, and although I don't remember any specifics either, I did notice when I 
was reading through Google's coding standards that a lot of the advanced C++ 
features that were banned, were banned for reasons that boil down to notable 
problems with C++'s version of the feature. In other words, I got the 
impression that Google would allow most of those things in a langauge that 
wasn't as sucky as C++.

Which reminds me: Has C++ ever gotten the "finally" clause? I'm pretty sure 
it didn't originally have it. (I don't remember if this is true of Google or 
not, but if C++, or at least pre-C++1x, doesn't have "finally", then I can 
definitely imagine a company banning C++ exceptions on those grounds.)