From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 21:01:23 -0600 From: Latchesar Ionkov To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] quantity vs. quality Message-ID: <20060610030123.GA22488@ionkov.net> References: <20060610015739.GA21966@ionkov.net> <59f06232334eddd74b8f1c78efe5621b@quanstro.net> <20060610001024.GB2291@submarine> <20060610023116.GB22180@ionkov.net> <20060610004529.GD2291@submarine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060610004529.GD2291@submarine> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 66e612b2-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 05:45:29PM -0700, Roman Shaposhnick said: > Now, don't get me wrong -- sometimes you have to make an extra effort > to at least pretend that it is solvable. Especially when you are in a > business of building commercial software. I can appreciate it. But lets > move our discussion to a practical level -- could you explain what > sort of "alternative" control flow you're after when something bad > happens inside the library. What kind of an ideal world solution > would you like to see as an application developer ? Umm, like returning an error? :) Thanks, Lucho