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    Defining and Using a Symbol Analogue for Error Reporting in C++

Abstract

The use of exceptions isn't a viable error handling approach in all
cases and returning codes for error handling is sometimes preferable.
However, using integral types for error identification is problematic
as there is no good mechanism to guarantee that each value uniquely