Re: Why "fatal" errors aren't special.

2000-08-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
Peter Scott wrote: > At 11:21 AM 8/24/00 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: > >By building up a > >non-fatal error handling technique on top the existing fatal error > >handling technique, you are forcing code that assumes it will die to > >behave differently, when you wrap a try block around it. Now

Re: Why "fatal" errors aren't special.

2000-08-24 Thread Peter Scott
At 11:21 AM 8/24/00 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote: >By building up a >non-fatal error handling technique on top the existing fatal error >handling technique, you are forcing code that assumes it will die to >behave differently, when you wrap a try block around it. Now it will only >"maybe" die.

Re: Why "fatal" errors aren't special.

2000-08-24 Thread Glenn Linderman
Tony Olekshy wrote: > Some discussion has suggested that it might be a good idea if it > were possible to have a simple way to prevent catch from catching > so-called "fatal" errors. Some fringe ideas have actually included > two seperate mechanisms, one for so-called fatal errors (based on > di