OutputRange should be infinite?

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Tuesday, 9 October 2012 at 14:03:36 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> I tend to disagree with your examples, because, you are mixing 
> the notion of run-time failure with logic error.
>
> For example: "new" New can fail. And you don't know unless you 
> try.
> But new will throw an exception to tell you it failed..
>
> An appender, as you say, is finite in memory, and will end up 
> throwing an exception, yes. You also have a chance to try to 
> catch it and react.
>
> Over-putting into a finite slice, on the other end, will 
> *assert*. Game over. It is a catch 22: You can't know unless 
> you try, you crash if you do.

Actually, OutOfMemoryError and AssertError are the same class of 
Throwable - namely Error. They're both non-recoverable exceptions.

I agree that AssertError is not an appropriate type to throw if 
an OutputRange is full, though.