Re: Why leave the error handling to the caller?

"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message >

In general, it's a mistake to think customers are stupid.

I'm afraid the big console companies, but not the games programmers themselves, have complete contempt for their customers.

We were allowed to show two error messages. "Drive door not open" and
"Disk dirty". So if the program encounters an internal error, such as running out of memory, the customer has to take the disk out, polish it, and restart the game, and that fixes the problem. Says it all.

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