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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: contracted exceptions
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:58:19 +0200
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:13:52 GMT, Ray Blaak wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

>> Right, this is why continuation in any form, including raising exceptions,
>> is unsafe. There must be an independent program [a judge] to handle the
>> case.
> 
> What to do depends on the program in question. A quiet quick death would be
> the worst thing to do for a common office-like desktop application.

Surely the best thing is to corrupt all open documents and ones in reach,
accompanied by system resources leakage. The second good is to pop up a
modal panic message dialog in an endless loop. That would show the customer
that guys really worked hard on fault tolerance...

> Do to absolutely nothing, leaving it up to some external judge/debugger
> program, is in practice completely ridiculous.

You took it out of context, which was: continuation is unsafe (=>
impossible).

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de