\subsection{Introduction}\label{exceptionintroduction}
wxWidgets had been started long before the exceptions were introduced in C++ so
-it is not very surprizing that it is not built around using them as some more
+it is not very surprising that it is not built around using them as some more
modern C++ libraries are. For instance, the library doesn't throw exceptions to
signal about the errors. Moreover, up to (and including) the version 2.4 of
wxWidgets, even using the exceptions in the user code was dangerous because the