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sid0 on March 31, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ogg objections

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Coding_Styl...

I'm pretty sure exceptions aren't used because

- enabling exceptions has an effect on performance

- A lot of Mozilla code is XPCOM, and if you're familiar with COM and friends you'd know that they're heavily error-code oriented.

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