Dealing with the New Exception

Handling this new exception requires a new function in the ErrorHandlingModule's SAMSErrorHandling namespace.

This function, shown in Listing 11.3, is pretty simple.

Listing 11.3. HandleRuntimeError() in ErrorHandlingModule
1:    int HandleRuntimeError(runtime_error theRuntimeError)
2:    {
3:       cerr <<
4:          theRuntimeError.what() <<
5:          endl;
6:
7:       return 1;
8:    }

Line 1 is the function header and shows the formal argument theRuntimeError, which is of type runtime_error. Line 4 uses the standard exception what() function to get the error message you put into the exception object in lines 14 and 15 of Accumulate(). Line ...

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