From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter010@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released
Date: 2000/02/02
Date: 2000-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38976784.E60FB54@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: t7r9ew4ohp.fsf@calumny.jyacc.com
Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> writes:
> > (1) Exceptions: raise a Not_Found when input is exhausted. Some people
> > hate this because "Exceptions are only for error handling, not
> > control flow!". OCaml (and SML too I think) use exceptions for this,
> > and Ada sometimes does (try reading a file stream without using
> > File_Type...)
>
> I don't like this much.
> Exceptions are for error handling, not control flow :-)
The Ada design team expressed a preference for shorter names when
possible ("task" rather than "process"), so why didn't they use "error"
instead of "exception"? The answer is that exceptions are for handling
exceptional situations; not all exceptional situations are errors.
--
Jeff Carter
"We call your door-opening request a silly thing."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-27 0:00 Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released Ted Dennison
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Jürgen Pfeifer
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-01 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Jeff Carter [this message]
2000-02-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-04 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-17 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
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2000-03-05 0:00 ` [OT] C and in-band signalling (was: Re: Announce: OpenToken 2.0 released) Florian Weimer
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-03-06 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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