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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:12:38 +0200
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On 07.06.10 14:22, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:13:18 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> DbC, however, has to do with designing components of the ship.
>> You can have rescue clauses (exception handlers)
>> in DbC.
> 
> To whom should Titanic have sent the exception? To the humpback whales?

As I said, this is not an exception raised in some
component part, the ship is damaged and is going to
sind. The frame of reference for "exceptional" is
a different one.

>> Exceptional situations is "unprogrammed" exceptional state,
>> since this is what "exceptional" is about, if anything.
> 
> Any state is programmed.

In an trivial sense, yes, every exceptional state
is a state.... "Boring!", as some say.

> This includes the exceptional ones. When bug
> happens, the program is in no state.

Erh, are you sure?