Addin exceptions in SvStream

[Michael Stahl]

On 11/12/12 15:57, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> Exceptions are certainly no silver bullet (semantically they are 
> ~equivalent to encoding exception information in function return values 
> and explicitly handling those return values accordingly, so the "endemic 
> bloat" claim meets skepticism)

well in practice in our code the alternative to exceptions is not
"explicitly handling those return values" but simply ignoring the error
conditions which usually tends to results in smaller code  ;-)