A Case for Automatic Exception Handling

Authors

Abstract

Exception handling mechanisms have been around for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, modern exceptions systems are not very different from the early
models. Programming languages designers often neglect the exception mechanism and look at it more like an add-on for their language instead of central part. As a consequence, software quality suffers as programmers feel that the task of writing good error handling code is too complex, unattractive and inefficient. We propose a new model that automates the handling of exceptions by the runtime platform. This
model frees the programmer from having to write exception handling code and, at the same time, successfully increases the resilience of programs to abnormal situations.

Subject

Exception handling mechanisms

Conference

23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2008), September 2008

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