CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"

Name: CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “Declarative Control Flow"
Description: Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2015 talk on handling exceptional control flow declaratively in C++. It uses scope guards with success and failure variants, built on std::uncaught_exceptions, to replace ad hoc RAII classes and rethrowing try/catch blocks.

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Andrei Alexandrescu's CppCon 2015 talk on handling exceptional control flow declaratively in C++. It uses scope guards with success and failure variants, built on std::uncaught_exceptions, to replace ad hoc RAII classes and rethrowing try/catch blocks.

Pointed to in threads on defer, scope_exit and RAII as the clearest treatment of scope guards.

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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