Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d]

On 29/09/2014 10:06, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/29/2014 1:27 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
>> In a daemon which logs to syslog or in a GUI application or a game an
>> uncaught 'disk full exception' would go completely unnoticed and that's
>> definitely a bug.
>
> Failure to respond properly to an input/environmental error is a bug.
> But the input/environmental error is not a bug. If it was, then the
> program should assert on the error, not throw.
>

I agree. And isn't that exactly what Teoh said then:
"That's why I said, an uncaught exception is a BUG. "

I think people should be more careful with the term "uncaught exception" 
because it's not very precise.


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