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Software Essentials
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Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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274 Software Essentials
9.1.1 Exceptions and Software Design
Exceptions reect a structured approach to processing errors. All execu-
tions change the state of a program; the intent of exception handling is to
recover from the state of an error condition so that normal processing may
resume. An exception handler may generate a summary or detailed trace
of the execution state when an exception occurs, but is not required to
do so. Normal execution, and its associated output, is suspended while
the exception handler unwinds the stack and looks for a matching catch
clause.
From the soware design perspective, what does exception handling
cost? To some, the wrapping of code in try blocks, with associated catch
blocks, clutters code. Spec ...
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ISBN: 9781439841204