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Re: Exception handling [ was Re: Zeroes and infinities ]
Michel Hack (1-914-784-7648) <hack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... and simply terminating an entity
that is known to "the system" (which may be larger than what the
run-time environment controls) are all very real.
Er, yes - I am beginning to think too much in POSIX terms :-(
The definition of what that entity is is decidedly non-trivial,
and may not correspond to a POSIX process or (as Michel says) any
single language environment.
And I quite agree with the other points he has made. This is a
genuinely hard problem.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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