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That is a problem with the way exceptions work in C++, not with the exceptions as concept.

C++ exception's design suffer from being added to the language in the last years of the language's design and having to support the possibility of being turned off if desired.

This, coupled with the manual resource management of the language is with lead to some of the issues with exceptions in C++.

Not all languages with exception's support suffer from the same problems.



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