Re: Why leave the error handling to the caller?


"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7oidnecxxeEqReHbnZ2dnUVZ8vednZ2d@xxxxxxxxx
Malcolm McLean said:
Wrong. A 2GB computer will typically have many more demands placed
upon it than will a 640KB computer, and every camel - no matter how
strong its back - has a last straw.

What you are saying is that you have a small pension from the British government. What is the chance of the government going bankrupt as you withdraw your pension?
Governments can go bankrupt, but it causes major social disruption, and so voters normally don't tolerate more than one or two defaults until they either put more money into the kitty or reduce obligations.

But I don't have any problem depending on /good/ code. Do you?

Yes. I am currently writing BabyX purely to avoid depending on Motif. Motif is a far better toolkit than I could write, but I don't have it installed on my machine. I can get it, but then that will mean that everyone who wants to play about with my program will have to do the same. So I took the decision to depend just on Xlib, hence BabyX.

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