[Shootout-list] Many tests cheat

[Isaac Gouy]

> > afaict felix doesn't have an exception handling mechanism?
> > 
> > Isn't the felix program for the exception handling test completely
> > ignoring what the test asks to be done?
> 
> That depends on what you mean by exception handling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_handling

-snip- 
> If you mean C++ exception handling, you'd be right,
> but that's a language specific constraint which
> excludes all languages other than C++.

Or Ada or Mozart/Oz or Erlang or Java or Smalltalk or ...

> I'd note you would need to careful to use an operational
> constraint -- you just can't ban the Felix solution
> because it isn't 'throwing an exception'.

Nonsense - of course we can! 

> Python can't throw exceptions either. Underneath, it passes them
> around as special values (a kind of C version of a
> Haskell monad .. :)

*Underneath* 
Wrapped up with try & except & raise




		
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