- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 11:12:59 -0500
- To: "DOM mailing list" <www-dom@w3.org>
Hmmm. Normally I'd say that the description of the operation which throws the exception dominates over the description of the exception, but this does raise the question of whether the wiggle room is allowed-but-not-currently used (which may be perfectly reasonable, as exceptions may be reused in the future) or if the operation description is stricter than it need be. I honestly don't know. Someone should dig back into the archives to check. I don't have strong opinions either way on this one. Permitting it to happen does risk letting folks write nonportable code... but if it's documented that the exception may be thrown, then if they fail to catch it and do something reasonable about it (or avoid provoking it in the first place), that's their own fault. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more. "The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
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