The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Juan Manuel Cabo]

I didn't know where I last read it, it got stuck in my head. I 
wrote:

> [...] doesn't mean
> that one must turn the advantages into disadvantages and start
> hammering screws because we love hammers.

I forget to be careful with metaphors, I realize that some must
be emotionally loaded and don't really help in debating since
they can be used either way and are astranged from reason.

(Hahaha, nothing more dangerous than landing on a new 
forum/community
without tip toeing, ohh the rush of excitement!!)

--jm


On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 at 16:49:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/21/12 10:39 AM, foobar wrote:

...

> To quote a classic:
>
>> made generic. You seem to prove the old saying that when all 
>> you have
>> is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
>

...

>
> Andrei