Re: exception handling

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Cezary Zielinski wrote:

> You are right - low level components simply report errors. The high level
> execution automaton reacts differently to different categories of errors. By
> high level I mean the main() function of a thread. If this automaton would
> have to deal with each error separately it would be very complex. That is
> why it is reasonable to categorise errors.

This is the main drawback of a centralized architecture: the ``main()
function'' has to be omni-scient. This indeed doesn't scale, and it
introduces too many couplings.

Herman