Re: >>: Exceptions vs NaN/NaI
On 2012-05-29 12:28:44 +0100, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> On May 29 2012, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >Even the notion of termination is vague, when you have things like
> >programs calling other programs (see for instance shell scripts
> >and the notion of subshell, sometimes spawn in an implicit way),
> >compilation from within the program (like Perl's eval), plugins,
> >and so on.
>
> As is the notion of exception handling. That is precisely why it is
> a bad idea to specify the details, and it is far better to make such
> behaviour explicitly implementation-dependent.
I agree.
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