From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-30 09:52:07
David Abrahams wrote:
> on Tue Jul 29 2008, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard-AT-ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>> The difference between exceptions and asserts are that, while both are
>> errors, exceptions is a system to report error and asserts is a system
>> to check that errors do not occur.
>> So the Error Handling category could be subdivided in Error Reporting
>> (which would also contain error codes and logging) and Error Checking
>> (which would also contain the testing framework).
>
> That might be a good idea.
Actually logging is more "error checking" I guess, since you cannot
catch the error and recover from it in the program.