DIP33: A standard exception hierarchy

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-04-02 22:15, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:

> This illustrates my point nicely!  What does the shell do in this case?
> It treats both errors the same:  It prints an error message and returns
> to the command line.  It does not magically try to guess the filename,
> find a way to get you permission, etc.

No, but you do know the difference. It doesn't just say "can't open file 
<filename>". It will say either, "file <filename> doesn't exist" or 
"don't have permission to access <filename>". It's a huge difference. I 
know _what_ went wrong with that file, not just that _something_ when wrong.

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/Jacob Carlborg