At 04:03 PM 8/15/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Just to make sure some opposition is heard: I've always thought of > > "throw" as very silly word. To me, a program is much like a maze, a > > multilevel walk in an old castle. There are unexpected trapdoors, but as > > long as they stay closed, you can simply continue. If such a trapdoor > > open, you fall through, someimes through several floors, until somewhere > > you encounter a safety net: you were caught. You can continue from > > there. If there was no safety net, you keep falling, well, into the > > water, out of the castle (er, "program".) > >Hmmm...trip() and trap()? fail() and deal()? freak() (or panic) and cope(). Think anyone'd get cranky if we named the default error handling sub for a package PROZAC? :-) Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk
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