Re: We have a new standard!

David Brown writes:

That's wrong on many levels.
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First, what you think should be "obvious" now might not have been obvious at  the time the relevant decisions were made - it's a lot easier to see  problems with hindsight than to predict them in advance.

It was obvious to me at the turn of the century, when I returned to C++  after spending a brief time hacking Java, looked at what C++ did with  exceptions, and LOLed.