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What use is this since exceptions are thrown across method boundaries? I mean, what can you do with the knowledge the method A only throws exception E if A calls B which in turn throws F, and then B calls C which throws G and so on! I mean, what useful analysis can you perform with this information?
– David Heffernan
Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:05
@David: well you could add exception thrown by B to the documentation of A. The difference is that you only do this once (when writing A) and not every time you use A. Unfortunately it seems to be a maintenance nightmare - changing B's exception handling now requires changing the documentation of all functions using B - very ugly indeed
– jpfollenius
Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:13
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@smasher you would need a tool to do this and I don't see how such a tool could exist.
– David Heffernan
Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 15:19
Nice to see you are using DelphiCodeToDoc :)
– TridenT
Commented Jan 28, 2011 at 16:07

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