RE: Action item on the virtues of error-handling

Yes, I keeping thanking my machine for telling me 
my code won't compile.  It never says thanks back, 
but when a Coke machine tells me to "have a nice 
day", I put an ice pick in the speaker.  YMMV.

;-)

len


From: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com [mailto:noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com]

I think that's an example that highlights how one can be tempted to use 
error handling strategies or guidelines in one context that don't work in 
the other, particularly in siutations where the same protocol is used for 
both interactive and machine-to-machine purposes.

Received on Friday, 24 October 2003 17:12:35 UTC