Re: Tasty exceptions

"Craig Stuntz [TeamB]" <craig_stuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [a.k.a. acm.org]> wrote
in message news:44a52f5e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
GrandmasterB wrote:
Cant say I've ever lost a byte of data using the approach.
No, you can't, can you? Nor can you really say if you haven't.

Sure I can - its just not happened. Not due specifically to eating
exceptions, at least. But if you're talking at the esoteric level, then no,
certainly I cant say for sure - but neither can any programmer using any
technique or language.



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