Question

I have some technical questions. In this function:

string report() const {
    if(list.begin() == list.end()){
        throw "not good";
    }
    //do something
}

If I throw the exception what is going on with the program? Will my function terminate or will it run further? If it terminates, what value will it return?

Answer 1

If you throw an exception, all functions will be exited back to the point where it finds a try...catch block with a matching catch type. If your function isn’t called from within a try block, the program will exit with an unhandled exception.

Check out https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/exceptions for more info.