On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 19:57, Edward Catmur <ecatmur_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 17:06, Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 18:42, Edward Catmur via Std-Proposals
>> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > You're using exceptions in situations where you don't care about the stacktrace? Does that mean you're using exceptions as flow control?
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>> No. Current uses of exceptions are such that the exception type and
>> its data contain all the information necessary for callers to deal
>> with the exception,
>> the stacktrace information is irrelevant for that.
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> It is necessary if you need it to be able to investigate the exception, and thus the caller needs to log it. In that case dealing with the exception requires having a stacktrace from throw point to handler.

Sure, fine, but there are many uses of exceptions (such as most
existing uses) that do not use a stacktrace, but that doesn't make
them flow control.