Re: Why "fatal" errors aren't special.

At 11:21 AM 8/24/00 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>By building up a
>non-fatal error handling technique on top the existing fatal error
>handling technique, you are forcing code that assumes it will die to
>behave differently, when you wrap a try block around it.  Now it will only 
>"maybe" die.

There are no existing fatal exceptions.  You can call die as much as you 
want, but if your caller has wrapped you in an eval block, tough.  RFC 88 
does not change this at all.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies