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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: F9X twister & ADA (was: n-dim'l vectors)
Date: 2000/04/11
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In article <5jJI4.297$PV.9915@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, "James Giles" <jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net> writes:

> A given exception might be actually handled by a remote ancestor
> in the call tree: which couldn't possibly have any specific knowledge
> about how to recover from an error so remote.

It depends upon error.  "disk space exhausted" would seem susceptible
to a general (though gross) cleanup approach, possibly quite short of
stopping the program.