Abstract
The goals of exception handling mechanisms are to make programs more reliable and robust. The integration of exception handling mechanisms with object-oriented languages raises some unique issues. The requirements of exception handling often conflict with some of the goals of object-oriented designs, such as supporting design evolution, functional specialization, and abstraction for implementation transparency. This paper demonstrates these conflicts, illustrates that the use of exception handling in object-oriented systems poses potential pitfalls, and suggests that their resolution is one of the first steps necessary to make exception handling robust in object-oriented designs and languages.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | ECOOP 1997 - Object-Oriented Programming - 11th European Conference, Proceedings |
| Editors | Mehmet Aksit, Satoshi Matsuoka |
| Publisher | Springer Verlag |
| Pages | 85-103 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Print) | 3540630899, 9783540630890 |
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| State | Published - 1997 |
| Event | 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 1997 - Jyvaskyla, Finland Duration: Jun 9 1997 → Jun 13 1997 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 1241 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
| Other | 11th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 1997 |
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| Country/Territory | Finland |
| City | Jyvaskyla |
| Period | 6/9/97 → 6/13/97 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer-Verlag Berhn Heidelberg 1997.