Well, well...

[BCS]

Reply to Sean,

> It shouldn't halt, but a sub-process handling some portion of the
> web-page loading might.  Say you launch a process to grab the HTML and
> it in turn launches additional processes to get the images, etc, which
> need to be displayed.  Any one of these processes may encounter an
> error and abort, but the browser would continue to run and the rest of
> the page would still load.

in short, a process is small enought that all errors are fatal (to it)

?

>  The key, I think, is considering processes
> in Erlang to be a bit like classes or modules in D.

or stack frames?

>  Exception
> recovery isn't done simply because the cost of starting a process is
> so low that there's no reason to bother--just spawn a new process and
> try again.
> 
> Sean
>