A Philosophy of Software Design

[Walter Bright]

On 6/16/2026 5:51 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Sunday, 24 May 2026 at 01:39:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> For example, the title of Chapter 10 is "Define Errors out of Existence". I've 
>> been trying to do that since the 1980s.
> 
> Sounds a bit disturbing, on error resume next is a method to define errors out 
> of existence. The replacement character being good for unicode is an exclusive 
> property of unicode.

It behaves much like the floating point NaN value, which is a generally 
misunderstood and underappreciated.