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[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:jiunst$qrm$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> 3. Intercepting and recovering from seg faults, div by 0, etc., all sounds 
> great on paper. In practice, it is almost always wrong. The only exception 
> (!) to the rule is when sandboxing a plugin (as you suggested).
>

The purpose of catching exceptions is to respond to a condition. Recovery is 
merely *one* such type of response.