From: "<Brad Knotwell" <knotwell@f5.com>
To: Gerd.Stolpmann@darmstadt.netsurf.de
Cc: knotwell@f5.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: small code problem
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 17:27:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14213.16897.231203.976296@knotwell.f5.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99070901192505.28040@schneemann>
Gerd Stolpmann writes:
> This solution avoids that Invalid_argument must be caught which is better
> style. It is almost always a bad idea to trap Invalid_argument,
> Out_of_memory, Stack_overflow, and Division_by_zero, as these exceptions
> are thought as last resort that indicates a bad system state that must
> not happen but happened. It is better to design the program such that
> it never runs into conditions that raise these exceptions, and if they
> happen nevertheless, you missed something.
He Gerd--
This is a serious question (not an argumentative one). How do I avoid
Invalid_argument when I'm expecting the user to enter a filename on
the command-line? Or are you just talking in general?
--Brad (who's wondering if he's missed the forest for the trees)
>
> Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-09 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-02 22:30 <Brad Knotwell
1999-07-08 4:56 ` Markus Mottl
1999-07-08 22:49 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-07-09 0:27 ` <Brad Knotwell [this message]
1999-07-09 1:37 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
1999-07-08 18:23 Damien Doligez
[not found] <199907090927.KAA09195@toy.william.bogus>
1999-07-09 13:56 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-07-11 19:23 ` Markus Mottl
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