The Old New Thing

April 22, 2004 - The Old New Thing

Cleaner, more elegant, and wrong

April 22, 2004 Apr 22, 2004 04/22/04
Raymond Chen
Just because you can't see the error path doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Here's a snippet from a book on C# programming, taken from the chapter on how great exceptions are. Notice how much cleaner and more elegant [this] solution is. Cleaner, more elegant, and wrong. Suppose an exception is thrown during CreateIndexes(). The ...

NFL cracks down on grandstanding

April 22, 2004 Apr 22, 2004 04/22/04
Raymond Chen
The National (US) Football League adopted a 15-yard penalty for pre-planned celebrations, such as last year's "phone call from the end zone" or 2002's "autographed football". Apparently, the existing monetary fines weren't having much of an effect on players with multi-million-dollar contracts. (Surprised?) So now the league is ...