Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 16. Exception Handling

	It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
	--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

	O! throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half.
	--William Shakespeare

	If they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.
	--Jerome David Salinger

	O infinite virtue! com’st thou smiling from the world’s great snare uncaught?
	--William Shakespeare

	I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.
	--Groucho Marx

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• What exceptions are and when to use them.

• To use try, catch and throw to detect, handle and indicate exceptions, respectively. ...