Re: [9fans] read of eof

["Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>]

This is crap - we are talking about delimitered messages.

But say what you like, no one listens.

brucee

On 11/21/06, Michael Baldwin <michael@cibernet.com> wrote:
> Obviously, a read of end-of-file should return -42. And if the data
> is possessed, -666.
>
> Seriously, there were two languages that I thought integrated
> exceptions / failures well enough that you could actually use them
> all the time pleasantly: Icon and Mesa. System calls (or expressions)
> would "fail" instead of return in-band values, and the syntactic
> sugar was light enough on calories that you didn't have the sense
> that you were dragging out an exception handling harness with whipped
> cream on top all the time just for one little call.
>
> Ah well.
>
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