Re: Exception handling [Was: Re: Things to remove]

[Dan Sugalski]

At 02:48 AM 8/24/00 +0200, Markus Peter wrote:


>--On 23.08.2000 17:26 Uhr -0700 Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
>>Thanks for reminding me of this, Bart, if RFC 88 co-opts die for non-fatal
>>errors, people that want to write fatal errors can switch to using "warn
>>...; exit ( 250 );" instead of "die ...;" like they do today.  [Tongue
>>firmly planted on cheek.]
>
>I can only hope this is pure irony...
>
>There is no such thing as an ultimately fatal error - it should always be 
>up  to the user of a module wether the program should die, but I guess you 
>see that the same and will answer me with "use eval" then ;-)

I hope you're speaking from a perl level--a segfault pretty much spells 
"Game Over"...

                                        Dan

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