Exception handling: issues and a proposed notation

  • Authors:
  • John B. Goodenough

  • Affiliations:
  • SofTech, Inc., Waltham, MA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1975

Quantified Score

Hi-index 48.27

Visualization

Abstract

This paper defines exception conditions, discusses the requirements exception handling language features must satisfy, and proposes some new language features for dealing with exceptions in an orderly and reliable way. The proposed language features serve to highlight exception handling issues by showing how deficiencies in current approaches can be remedied.