Re: exception handling

Jorge Cabrera Gámez wrote:
> Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
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> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Cezary Zielinski wrote:
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> > > Exception handling should be synonymous to handling error situations. We
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> > There are different levels of error situations! Some are indeed a
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> I agree with Herman. I think we need to define a taxonomy or typology of
> "errors", ranging from catastrophic failures to simple "warnings". I think we
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Indeed, the mechanisms of exception handling in programming languages do
take care of situations other than fatal; the ORCCAD architecture, which
was mentioned in past discussions, has exactly such a typology,
distinguishing local exceptions (inside a task), exceptions causing the
exiting from the current task ans switching into another one, and
finally, the fatal exceptions, to be used for catastrophic cases, which
are indeed important too.

Eric

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