ctrl+c and destructors

[Walter Bright]

On 10/3/2013 5:55 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 10/4/13, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>> Continuing program execution after it failed due to programming bugs is just
>> a bad, bad, bad idea, and it needs to die.
>
> Then why did you introduce the Error exception type into the language
> in the first place? I mean why would you let exceptions propagate up
> the call stack if the state of the program is seriously compromised?
> Why not just call the system's exit() function?
>
> If nobody up the call stack could do anything useful, then there's no
> point in walking up the call stack. And yet we have Error that does
> exactly that.
>
> What I'm saying is the act of throwing an Error itself is an act of
> continuing program execution after a serious failure. And here you are
> arguing against it.


Error exceptions are not necessarily program bugs. They are non-recoverable 
errors, which is not the same thing.