From: dale@cs.rmit.edu.au (Dale Stanbrough)
Subject: Re: Exception Propagation
Date: 1999/06/15
Date: 1999-06-14T23:48:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dale-1506990947560001@dale.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccd7yyrgfu.fsf@world.std.com
Robert A Duff wrote:
" The rules for exactly what
happens when are way too complicated (I wrote them), and they're
extremely difficult to implement efficiently. I think it would have
been better if the default behavior for Finalize would be to kill the
program; if the programmer wants some other behavior, write a handler."
I've noticed a number of times that you have had second thoughts on some
of the design decisions you made (or maybe Robert Dewar did :-). I was
wondering if you have in mind a better process for establishing standards,
so that the problems described above wouldn't result?
Dale
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-07 0:00 Exception Propagation Decker, Christian R
1999-06-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Glen
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Decker, Christian R
1999-06-08 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-14 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1999-06-14 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough [this message]
1999-06-15 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-08 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-08 0:00 ` R. Tim Coslet
1999-06-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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2006-03-15 15:16 Exception propagation REH
2006-03-16 21:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-03-16 22:19 ` REH
2006-03-16 22:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-03-17 2:52 ` REH
2006-03-17 14:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
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