Sutter's ISO C++ Trip Report - The best compliment is when someone else steals your ideas....

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 10 22:48:41 UTC 2018


On 7/10/18 6:26 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, 10 July 2018 13:21:28 MDT Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On 03.07.2018 06:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> (I'm referring to the repeated and endless threads here where people
>>> argue that yes, they can recover from programming bugs!)
>>
>> Which threads are those?
> 
> Pretty much any thread arguing for having clean-up done when an Error is
> thrown instead of terminating ASAP. Usually, folks don't try to claim that
> trying to fully continue the program in spite of the Error is a good idea,
> but even that gets suggested sometimes (e.g. trying to catch and recover
> from a RangeError comes up periodically).

Or aside from that strawman that RangeError shouldn't be an Error even...

-Steve



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