RE: Python or Perl for a Debian maintainance project?

["Julian Mehnle" <lists@mehnle.net>]

Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:44:27PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > C++ does not have an undef value. Where's your undefined integer?
> > > Nor does it have accessible multi-valued returns - you have to
> > > define an entire class to do it.
> > 
> > "an entire class" -- Yeah, so what?  It can be as simple as:
> > [...]
> > It's not a significant problem.
>
> [...] 
> If you're going to go to that much effort, you might as well just
> throw an exception and have done with it.

I'm about the last person on earth who'd argue *against* the use of exceptions.  I just said that practicing an "undef" idiom in C++ is not a significant problem.  An "undef" idiom has more valid and valuable uses than just error handling.