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From: "Bob Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: contracted exceptions
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"Simon Wright" <simon.j.wright@mac.com> wrote in message 
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> ... 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.
Bob