An efficient and reliable object-oriented exception handling mechanism

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An efficient and reliable object-oriented exception handling mechanism

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive
Volume 40 , Issue 2 (February 2005) table of contents

COLUMN: Technical correspondence table of contents

Pages: 27 - 32

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0362-1340

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Shujuan Jiang	Southeast University, China
Baowen Xu	Southeast University, China

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper proposes an exception handling mechanism for developing reliable object-oriented systems based on analyzing some problems encountered in the C++ programming language. The exceptions are organized into a knowledge sharing inheritance hierarchy and the handlers can be defined within exception classes. This enables the information to be hidden. The separation between the normal codes and the exception handling codes makes the program neat and maintainable. It supports both the termination and the retry model. Binding the exception to the object responsible for its raise can solve the issue of matching the handler relying on only the exception type.

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