Making Errors errors

[Timon Gehr]

On 29.01.21 01:39, Paul Backus wrote:
> 
> Of course, the key phrase here is "defined by the language spec." As a 
> language designer, you are free to define out-of-bounds indexing as 
> either recoverable or unrecoverable. But as a programmer, once the 
> decision has been made and the spec has been written, you do not get a 
> choice--either you play by the rules, or your code is wrong.

What you seem to ignore here is that it's the language's job to 
accommodate the programmer's use cases, not the other way around and 
that this is a forum where we discuss changes to the language specification.