EXCEPTION HANDLING DESIGN ISSUES John B . Goodenough,
SIGPLAN Notices 1975
abstract Exception handling design issues are reflected in discussions by Zahn [1] , Parnas [2], Hill [3], Elson [4], Organick [5], and myself [6, 7] . The purpose of this paper is to summarize these issues . This summary can be used to evaluat e the strengths and weaknesses of proposed or existing exception handling languag e features and as a guide in designing new features .