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__rkaup__ on June 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tom Duff: Reading Code From Top to Bottom (1999)

Why don't console games use exceptions?

to3m on June 5, 2011 [–]

No compiler support on one common system.

You should be handling every case anyway - by the time the code is done, there are no exceptional situations left ;)

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