Re: Tasty exceptions



Nick Hodges (Borland/DevCo) wrote:
Michael C. wrote:


A good programmer would know that there is an error by checking the
return value or the function. ( Perhaps you didn't see the result :=
false statement at beginning of the function. )


Michael --

A good programmer never lets errors go unreported, especially out of
memory errors or I/O errors.

Two points:

1) Having a function returning success or failure is an element of error reporting.

2) A good programmer tries works around errors.



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