On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 05:39:59 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 03:19:09 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
Sorry, you're right, that description of Exception/Error is
correct. But I don't think that SDL initialization is a
non-recoverable error. The program might want to retry SDL
initialization with different parameters
While this may be true in this case, I think that, in general,
you cannot draw such a clear line between what's recoverable and
what's not. If you really want to push things to the extreme, the
sole unrecoverable error shall be assertion failure and the
SIGKILL.
Everything else could be otherwise handled, even if for that
you'd need to program a new operating system inside your program,
just because the one that intend to use is missing ;)
No, that's extreme. But, matter is, what is recoverable and what
not, is a matter of what the architect (and the specification)
decide to be.
