Chris Devers wrote:
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Felix Li wrote:
It's fairly well known that one should use "open" with an "or die". Is
there really any condition where "close" fails, making the "or die"
necessary?
Of course!
<reasons>
The 'open ... or die ...' idiom makes debugging *much* easier.
I read the question being asked as "is there ever any reason to use
'close ... or die ...'". Even if I read the question wrong, I am now
curious as to what the answer to my interpretation is.
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