Why exceptions for error handling is so important

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Ola Fosheim Grøstad:

> (Most of std::C++ is optional, templated and inefficient... 
> There is no consistent culture. Though they got some thing 
> right with unique_ptr and new language features recently.)

I don't agree. The basic ideas of STL by Alexander Stepanov are 
very good. Phobos contains related ideas, repackaged in ranges. 
Ranges are a little more fundamental, ma but in practice they are 
often good enough and they are often more handy. Rust has chosen 
a different way so far, but will improve with higher order 
generics later.

Bye,
bearophile