Re: Draft 3 of RFC 88 version 2.

At 08:43 PM 8/19/00 -0600, Tony Olekshy wrote:
>Peter Scott wrote:
> >
> > Dave Rolsky wrote:
> > >
> > > Tony Olekshy wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  die
> > > >     If argument is anything else, raise a run-time
> > > >     exception.
> > >
> > > So this probably shouldn't be the case.
> >
> > This sounds alright; there's something very self-defeating
> > about raising a run-time exception from dying badly, if you
> > see what I mean.
>
>Yes!  That's why v1 of RFC 88 didn't do that.  Thanks, Dave.

Hmm, does this affect the idea of throw on an object that isn't an 
exception being a run-time error?  I hope not.  throw and die shouldn't 
have the list-joining behavior in common.

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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies