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Subject: Re: contracted exceptions
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:20:15 +0100
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On 11/6/07 16:14, in article 1181574891.16521.1.camel@kartoffel, "Georg
Bauhaus" <rm.tsoh+bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:15 -0400, Bob Spooner wrote:
>> "Simon Wright" <simon.j.wright@mac.com> wrote in message
>> news:m27iqd8g04.fsf@mac.com...
>>> ... I agree that an exception message isn't of any use to the end user (I
>>> suppose they may grow to learn that some messages happen because of
>>> particular sequences of operations, and to avoid those sequences).
>> The exception message may be of use if it says that the problem is a missing
>> data file that the user forgot to provide.
> 
> No message at all leads to Kafka effects.

The user turns into a giant cockroach?

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Bill Findlay
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